No Key, Only Light It’s 2021, at the height of the pandemic, and my children stand inside the dungeon at Fort Frederick, Grenada, facing the white cut of an open doorway. They had just spent four months locked down on our sailboat, unable to set foot on land. We were 18,000 kilometres from home, stranded through the pandemic on forty feet of fibreglass. Australia had locked its citizens out. Nearby countries had closed their borders to us. Our bank accounts, passports, insurance, SIM cards, and the simple right to move all began to fail. Then Grenada opened a gate, granting our stranded boat the right of entry. We sailed three days to their shores in rough weather. In a place built for confinement and suppression, they stand at the threshold of exit. Finally able to walk on land. Two hundred and forty-one years earlier, in 1779, the French began work on the fort after they captured Grenada from the British. The British completed it in 1783 after they retook the island. Built high above St George’s Harbour, it belonged to a colonial system of defence, surveillance, control, and confinement. Unlike most coastal forts, Fort Frederick looks inward. Its guns faced the island’s hills, a reminder that colonial power feared not only invasion from the sea, but also attack, uprising, and loss of control from within. During the 1979 Grenadian Revolution, Fort Frederick became headquarters of the People’s Revolutionary Army’s motorised division. On October 19, 1983, from Fort Frederick, PRA Lieutenant Colonel Ewart Layne gave the order to retake Fort George, then known as Fort Rupert, where Maurice Bishop and his supporters had gathered after Bishop was freed from house arrest. Bishop and several members of his government and inner circle were subsequently captured and executed. Six days later, the United States invaded Grenada. During that invasion, U.S. aircraft attacked military positions around Fort Frederick, Fort Matthew, and Richmond Hill. In the confusion, they mistakenly bombed the nearby Richmond Hill Mental Hospital, killing patients inside. Technical details: Shot on Canon 6D Mark II with a Canon EF 16–35mm f/4L lens at 33mm. Exposure: 1/30s, f/4.0, ISO 2500. Post-processing: Minor adjustments were made in Lightroom to contrast and colour. Location: Fort Frederick, Grenada Year: 2020 License: As the creator of this photographic artwork, I declare that if this piece is selected and purchased by the 6529 Network Museum, the underlying work will be released under the CC0 license. I confirm that I hold all necessary rights to make that release. All people depicted in the image have consented and are covered by appropriate model releases. The CC0 waiver will apply to the underlying artwork.