Carmel Said’s artworks speak of island life

Carmel Said’s artworks speak of island life

“An island can be both a paradise and a prison, both heaven and hell,” writes Godfrey Baldacchino. “Any island, any islander, is a contradiction between ‘here’ and ‘there’.”This “rootedness” and “restlessness” that Baldacchino writes about might be felt even more acutely by an islander who has fled his tiny island, only to fetch up, for...