
Nasaria Suckoo Chollette
Nasaria Suckoo Chollette is a distinguished Caymanian artist, poet, and educator, whose multidisciplinary practice explores themes of identity, history, and cultural memory. Working across installation, sculpture, video, collage, and mixed media painting, her art offers layered reflections on the past while honoring the resilience of the Caymanian people. Deeply rooted in ancestral knowledge and oral traditions, Chollette’s art often centers the role of women as cultural bearers and meditates on the transmission of memory through matrilineal lines. Her practice also confronts the enduring legacies of enslavement and colonialism, revealing how history is not a fixed archive but a living presence, looping, resurfacing and reimagining itself in the present. In this context, her work becomes a vital node in the exhibition’s exploration of how cultural inheritance moves not only through bloodline, but also through ritual, storytelling, and place.
CIRCLES OF TIME ARTWORK

Womb Baskets
Poem and Film
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Poem Written and Performed by Nasaria Suckoo Chollette
Concept by Nasaria Suckoo Chollette
Production by Patrick Lopez of Jus Productions

Unbeing
Poem and Film
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Concept by Nasaria Suckoo Chollette
Performed by Nasaria Suckoo Chollette
Production by Patrick Lopez of Jus Productions

Water The Root
Short Film
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Concept by Nasaria Suckoo Chollette
& Randy Chollette
Costuming/Location/Casting by
Nasaria Suckoo Chollette
Performed by Randy Chollette,
Master Elsworth Grant, Aston Ebanks,
Humberto Scanio, Rayna Lopez,
Abigail Perez Gutierrez
Production Assistance by Patrick Lopez,
Heather Lopez, Elais Lopez
Filming and Editing by Peter Campbell
of Pro-Vision
Produced by Car City, Taylor Foster
Water the Root, a collaborative short film by Nasaria Suckoo Chollette and Randy Chollette, featured in the National Gallery of the Cayman Islands’ 2018 exhibition Create Your Story…Water the Root, embodies the themes at the heart of Circles of Time. Alongside the accompanying abstract painting Ashe, the film mediates on how personal and collective histories are not only preserved and reimagined, caried forward through ritual, memory, and movement. Embracing the cyclical nature of time and cultural inheritance, it reminds us that identity is not static; it is shaped across generations by spirit, place, and ancestral vision.

Womb Baskets
Mixed Media, 2022
Rag rugged white cotton, lace and wire
Silver Thatch and beads
Velvet and wire
Collection of the artist
Thanks are extended to Rose May Ebanks for her support in the making of this work.
These three cocoon-like objects echo the profile of a baby encased in the protective confines of the womb, each one different in size and shape. The baskets are created from familiar materials and techniques that evoke past and present: traditional sack cloth with “rag-rugged” recycled cloth, woven thatch, contemporary machine-made velvet, and plastic. While conceptually echoing the materiality and psychological resonance of the artist’s Re-Emergence series, they seek to comment on the process of birthing and ‘women’s work’. Says the artist: “Each stitch, each bead, each plait, each tying of the cloth is a loving, thoughtful process towards the wonder of creation.”