Last week we visited artist Ronald (Tony) Trinidad. Read his story here.
Tony was born on Curaçao but moved to Bonaire. He has a job but is more known for his hobby's. Tony sings, dances, writes his own songs, is a DJ, makes carnival costumes, paints pictures, or paints on walls and on anything else that seems suitable.
To Tony anything can be art, or perhaps it is more that he can make art out of anything. When things slowed down on Bonaire, even more than usual, because of Corona, Tony started painting on the walls of an old run-down building close to his own house. Anything could catch his eye and so he painted portraits of Mr Bean, Trump, Maduro and other world leaders. A huge red apple. A face holding a finger to her lips, a screaming person with her hands on her ears, references to the amount of gossip on the island. Inside the building a black man whose face is held down by a knee, telling the story of George Floyd who was killed that way by a policeman in the US. To Tony this is a work in progress. As long as the building doesn't collapse he will add pictures to it.