Dionne sat CXC in Visual Art when she was a student at Goodwill Secondary School. Regardless of her passion for art and her undoubted talent, she did not do well. In fact her paper was returned unmarked. She is not alone in this predicament. My most outstanding Dominican student took the exam a few years ago and came away with no more than average marks. Unlike mathematics and science there is no right or wrong answer. Everything depends upon the examiner's ability to recognise emerging talent.
In my experience students fall down, not so much on the work that is done on the day of the examination, but on the work that is prepared and submitted beforehand. In particular this applies to the "Journal" element. For this year's students the handing-in-date for the journal - which covers a two year period - is barely a week away. Nevertheless,you still have time to dip your pen into a glass of creative nectar and come up with something lyrical.
Below is one of Dionne's paintings: an elephant with the ears/wings of a butterfly. Now that is what creativity is all about...a different way of seeing.
If you think that an elephant with ears/wings of a butterfly is weird, Paul McCartney of "Beatles" fame once said:
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
Dionne is now a student at the State College. But alas, because the college offers nothing in art she is instead studying Law Enforcement.
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