Tavares Strachan (b. 1979) was that kid. Growing up in Nassau, Bahamas he was always into something. Curious. The “Why? Why? Why?” kid. Precocious.
“I had to be convinced,” Strachan told me via video interview. “If it didn’t make any sense, then it wasn’t going to work.”
Nowadays, the conceptual artist considers himself an “explorer,” the evolution of an inquisitive kid always asking questions, always wanting to know more, rarely satisfied with pat answers. Personality traits reflected in his artwork…