Many years ago, during the two days that preceded the beginning of Lent (Carnival) in Trinidad and Tobago, you'd come across a selection of extraordinary characters wandering through the crowded streets and , mainly, terrifying little children. I remember running away on many an occasion. The inspirations for their traditional costumes were drawn from multiple sources, many dating back to Elizabethan England: the jesters and demons of early English theatre. One group of characters all hovered around the idea of the devil (el diablo...or as they became known in local patois, the jab jabs). I found these characters ideally suited for woodcuts....the traditional style of mass produced communications in the fifteenth century. To me these wandering masquerders recalled the days of medieval morality plays....these seven woodcuts are my homage to times past, to a craft fast disappearing in the islands, to my own past and sense of identity