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Curator's Statement Lawrence Seward's Paradise is both a benevolent conversation about local island history and a more determined critique of our shrinking world. He questions our semblance of Paradise -- what Paradise means as an ideal, what it means in our perceptions, what it means as we humbly ascribe to create it for our future -- and his Paradise ends up being a deal with the devil, something we've been warned against. His work pushes as much as it pulls. He dissects our perceptions of Paradise, those modeled after Hawaii 5-0 and Magnum, those island ideals that eroded like the lapping wave of a beach comb. His work teeters on seeming normality because we want normality in Paradise, and yet it is a place where normality is tweaked. Lawrence Seward also contributed a project about the Doris Duke Foundation of Islamic Art in zingmagazine issue 20. Devon Dikeou |