Making On The Map

By Annalee Davis Annalee Davis is a visual artist living and working in Barbados. Her first independent film, On the Map, is a film about Caribbean migration that was partly shot on location in Guyana.

(This is one of a series of fortnightly columns from Guy-anese in the diaspora and others with an interest in issues related to Guyana and the Caribbean)

The film took seed in my mind thirteen years ago when a woman came to work with us in Barbados. She received technical training in Guyana as a welder, and joined the eighty-nine percent of Guyanese with more than twelve years education who left. I was struggling to continue making work as a visual artist while being a new mother. So every day for several years, she came to our home to provide domestic help.