He enrolled in the school of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA, in 1979, and for a time was a Cistercian monk in Montreal, Canada.
Titled Global Council for Restoration of the Earth's Environment, it was first shown at the Patrick Cramer Gallery in Geneva in May of that year.
The collages incorporate all manner of recycled materials, including naturalist prints from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and postage stamps from many countries.
[1] He is the founder of the Saint Lucia Sculpture Park, intended to bring public art to the landscape of the island.
On the occasion of the exhibition, Edward Dolman, the CEO of Phillips, called Xavier “one of the greatest artists ever to emerge from the Caribbean…a dynamic voice in the dialogue between globalization and localism.”[2]