POTO MITAN EXHIBITION
Hopes and prayers for the healing of Haiti, my birthplace. This body of work was created in response to the 2010 earthquake where so many were lost and so many places of my childhood destroyed. I have used my artistic license to create a sacred space out of the need to pray for the healing of Haiti. The word Poto Mitan is creole and refers to the centre of the pole (or peristyle) of a vodou temple. In this installation it is the place where Heaven meets Earth: a Healing place.
The D’Aguilar Art Foundation, Nassau, The Bahamas · 2012
Installation also exhibited at Waterloo Center for the Arts, Iowa, USA · 2020
Installation also exhibited at HAMOC, Haitian American Museum of Chicago, USA · 2021
Poto Mitan sculpture base detail · 2011
POTO MITAN sculpture · 2011
Poto Mitan Prayer Box · 2011
Poto Mitan Esprit Mask · 2011
Esprit 7 · 2011
Poto Mitan sculpture base detail · 2011
Esprit Calabash · 2011
Requiem for Haiti · 2011
Poto Mitan sculpture base detail · 2011
Prayer for our Sister Haiti · 2011
Esprit 3 Mask · 2011
Erzulie's Apparition · 2011
L'Union fait la force · 2011
Poto Mitan sculpture exhibited at Waterloo Center for the Arts, Iowa USA