| – Street in Georgetown to be renamed in his honourBy Leon SuseranHundreds flocked the Hogstye/Lancaster Community Centre to pay theirMembers of the Jordanite faith performing ritualslast respects to 90-year-old Guyanese icon,Cheap Jerseys, internationally renowned artist and sculptor, Philip Alphonso Moore,holesale NFL Jerseys, who passed away last week. Several dignitaries including government ministers and opposition leaders, along several members of the Guyana United Apostolic Mystical Council (GUAMC) of the Jordanite religion, attended the rousing proceedings.However, there were overtones and undertones between the words of several speakers who more or less preferred a State funeral for the iconic Berbician. Dr. Michael B. Scott, Moore’s nephew, delivered a stirring eulogy.Culture Minister Dr. Frank Anthony, praised the contributions of Moore, “that helped shape us as a people. His works of art are quite unique, you can go to no other part of the world and find such art, because it [the art] came from within… he was expressing himself and ideas for all of us”.“In each of his works, there are things that contain very profound meanings and it is for us to distill those meanings when we look at those pieces and every one of them would tell us a story of ourselves and our people and that’s the kind of contributions he left for us.And he didn’t use art for art sake; he used it to educate us as a nation and when weA section of the gathering at the funeral service at the Hogstye/Lancaster Community Centre in Berbicethink of our history, it is through art that many of my generation and younger would understand what the 1763 [Monument] represents to all of us.”Dr. Anthony noted that 249 years after the Berbice Slave Rebellion, “ we still remember it and we remember it because there is a monument in Georgetown to the 1763 heroes and that was because of the work that Philip Moore did,NFL Jerseys Wholesale, so he has embedded that in the memory of the nation and it stands out as his pre-eminent work”.Leader of the Opposition, Brigadier (Ret’d) David Granger, in delivering his words of honour, said that Moore was “without a doubt the most prolific artist this country ever knew.”“He was always working on something in his house…everything he touched, left a symbol — a mark. He was a poor man, but he has left a rich legacy for the whole nation. He was a modest man, but anyone who had a conversation with him knew he had a magnificent mind; an ordinary villager, but did extraordinary things; a simple person but never, ever a simplistic person.”Moore, he said, lit the fire on the cultural landscape of this country which could never be extinguished. He “opened windows to our culture which can never be closed. He was not a painter of cathedrals and city halls, [he was] not a painter ofPhillip Moore’s relatives and Parliamentarian Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine bear the casket to the hearsewaterfalls; he did not seek to imitate the world around him, he sought to interpret the world around him and everything he did had depth of meaning– had symbols. He was a man of symbology and if you couldn’t understand the symbols, you couldn’t understand Philip Moore”.Granger announced that during a conversation with Georgetown Mayor Hamilton Green, “he instructed me to advise relatives and friends of Moore that a street in Georgetown will be named after him”. This revelation brought loud cheers and applause from the large gathering.Granger said that the General Secretary of the People’s National Congress Reform “instructed me to inform you that our party will continue to press for an official recognition for Moore for his remains to be interred at the Seven Ponds”.Speaking on behalf of the Alliance for Change, Attorney-at-Law Nigel Hughes described Moore as “a national treasure”. He said he wouldn’t speak of his art “because the art speaks for itself”. Moore, he noted, was “one of the most beautiful souls I have ever met. When he exhibited at the Hadfield Foundation in Georgetown, everyone knew he was the connection between us here and our foreparents”.Moore, he said,Jerseys NFL Wholesale, elevated humanity in Guyana and “as we pay tribute to him, I think it is fitting to send him off as a National Hero”.Hughes added that the spirits of the departed who rose in the 1763 [Rebellion] are very disturbed and even more concerned that their blood and sacrifice “seems not to be recognized today because we are gathering in this county (Berbice) where they rose up and we still have not and will not inter the remains of this patriot where he deserves to be interred– in the Place of the Seven Ponds”.“As Phillip would say, as we gather under the tamarind tree for the jumbie wedding where we will celebrate our redemption and forgiveness, brothers and sisters, let us gather as a nation and salute this brother, and make sure he is interred where he deserves to be interred”.Also delivering brief remarks was General Secretary of the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC),Cheap Jerseys Supply, Lincoln Lewis.A Partnership for National Unity Executive Member, Dr Rupert Roopnaraine then recited a poem on behalf of Eusi Kwayana,Cheap Jerseys China, ‘Tall pantry’.A song was then performed by Rudolph ‘Sweet Kendingo’ Kendall and the religious aspect concluded as the remains of Moore were interred at the Lancaster cemetery.Earlier in the day, in the first part of Moore’s homecoming, scores gathered at the Square of the Revolution, where stands the 1763 Monument – arguably the great man’s finest creation, to pay their respects. |
