In Rain in the Port of Spain (White Oak), a yellow wall, filling most of the painting, may represent Trinidad's zoo or its prison, while a large lion prowling in the foreground may be an animal from the zoo or the Lion of Judah, emblem of the prison's Rastafarian population, or both — and that
sharp perspective down the wall to the left, with the strangely transparent prison guard, references the great Italian surrealist Giorgio de Chirico.
But from McCright's
perspective it was important to find out to what extent the
sharp debate over climate change at the elite level had trickled
down into the general public in recent decades.