PÒTOPRENS: The Urban Artists of Port-au-Prince – Repeating Islands

A report by Kaelen Wilson-Goldie for Art Forum. When the Haitian artist Myrlande Constant was a teenager in Port-au-Prince, she went to work with her mother in a factory making elaborately beaded wedding dresses. When she left, she began using the beads to make extremely unorthodox versions of drapo vodou—the small embroidered and sequined flags that…

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