The above print "Steel Pan Band coming down Ariapita Avenue", is a reproduction from a Gouache painting measuring 36" X 48". It was completed in 2000 for a show at The Michael Biennes Center in Fort Lauderdale. The show was called "The Art of Brian Wong Won" and featured some 50 of the artist's paintings, a traditional carnival costume display and a trade display of products from Trinidad & Tobago. It opened with a parade of the artist's traditional carnival costumes, Bele Dancers, African Drummers, and a 25 member steel pan orchestra.

The scene represents Trinidad's modern carnival with Fancy Sailors, Steelpan Musicians, Fancy Indians, onlookers and the famous Flag Woman waving the national flag. The street "Ariapita Avenue" does actually exist and can be found outside the city of Port-of-Spain. It is located in a suburb called Woodbrook, the Mecca for the Trinidad's Carnival 'Mas' Camps and Steelpan Yards. Before the dawn of Carnival, this quiet and quaint suburb of formal parks and villas, turns into a frenzy of activity as the production of 'Mas' takes center stage. It explodes into a Bacchanalian vision of color, fantasy and form with the pulsating sounds of Calypso and Soca vibrating from the tin and slate roofs of its resident Gingerbread Houses. Ariapita Avenue is the first judging and starting point for all the Carnival Mas Bands. The painting aptly captures the energy and pageantry of “The World's Greatest Festival on Earth "- Trinidad Carnival.

This fine art print has been produced in limited copies of 515 measuring 18"X24". They are hand signed and numbered by the artist.