Roots Life: Penn Cayetano’s latest art exhibit at the Bliss

Lola Delgado’s Art and Idiocy exhibition opened Wednesday night at the House of Culture, and tonight there is another exhibit that art connoisseurs can’t miss. It is entitled “Roots Life’’ which is opening at the Bliss by Pen Cayetano who resides in Germany and takes periodic trips home. His latest artwork is inspired by Belizean lifestyles and his experiences growing up in the south. And according to Cayetano, it is an early homecoming event before he moves back to the homeland later this year.

Pen Cayetano, Artist
“I know people don’t expect me to come around this time, usually I come around November, but in Roots life, I am preparing to come back home to the roots life that I left here twenty years ago. So I’m feeling just happy to be at home. Since I left Belize the last time after November, I start painting and most of my painting for this Roots Life exhibition is mostly about the life of the people; farmers as usual and normal life in Belize City, especially for the people who are doing farm works and fishing and that’s combined together that makes this roots life here. For the Roots Life you are gonna see more about the root living. Take for instance the painting I had on the placard a while ago shows you a man and his wife coming from the farm doing their normal works, you know coming with some ital food. So Roots Life depicts on perspective of food…”

Duane Moody
“And washing, the market, etcetera noh?”

Pen Cayetano
“Yeah, and so forth. And also you will see some paintings of the Maya History; the Maya washing by the river. That’s a part of our roots life too. Usually sometimes I do dark sceneries, depicting night and so, but normally in Belize it is a place with lots of lights and my paintings are always in that kind of direction of lighting up because of the light we have here in Belize.”

The exhibit opens at seven-thirty sharp.