The Mark of the Hand. Aubrey Williams - ACE164.2

Guyana landscape. Aubrey Williams looking at colour slides. His VO says "I don’t trust labels. Labels change. The meanings change. But the act of painting… is ‘timehri’ [the Arawak word for art, meaning] ‘the mark of the hand of man’." Images from Williams’s paintings. Paintings of tropical birds. Williams’s work in gallery. Williams talking about his background and becoming a full-time painter. His studio. Photograph of him as young man. Paintings. Photograph from his first one-man exhibition (1958). Williams packing a bag and en route for Guyana. Commentary gives biographical and career details, explaining his connection with pre-Columbian art, an interest that started when he was an agricultural officer living with the Warrau. Williams VO talking about his life in Hossororo. Timehri International Airport [now Cheddi Jagan International Airport] and Williams’s 1970 mural. Williams with the team engaged to help restore the mural. Williams VO. Repainting some of the faded colours. Willliams VO talking about the Guyanese pre-Columbian iconography in the mural, using totemic emblems from the Carib, the Warrau and the Arawak groups