But for big dreams? I dream one day of coming to the United States and maybe showing my metal art at an exhibition or a gallery. I can’t even imagine seeing my work at Macy’s – truly, it’s like a dream come true. What excites me is building a community of artists where everyone has work. What we hope for is more orders – I can only imagine with more orders, we could change this whole metal working community. Right now I’m helping my little sister pay her school fees. How has this changed my life? I’ve been able to pay my school fees. We’ve received some big orders and worked as a team to complete them. The orders we get from Macy’s have changed my life. I always knew I would be a metal artisan and would work with my uncles and father here. We learn it from our father and our uncles. Here in Croix-des-Bouquets, it is a skill that is passed down. I began creating metal art when I was just a little boy. The earthquake did not do a lot of physical damage in Croix-des-Bouquets, but the effect on this artisan community was earth shattering. We also would learn a bit more about the history of Croix-des-Bouquets, a unique artist community that has grown into one of the largest, sustainable metal art communities in Haiti. In Croix-des-Bouquets, we were going to visit several metal artisans’ studios and get a real live demonstration on how the art is made. We were thrilled to all be spending the next four days meeting with Macy’s Heart of Haiti artisans, and there couldn’t have been a better way to jump-start our trip than by visiting Croix-des-Bouquets and seeing for ourselves what Haiti is known for: Spectacular metal art. To read more in this series, click here.Īfter we landed in Port-au-Prince on a Thursday afternoon, our team of three bloggers, one daughter, and three representatives from Everywhere Agency (who sponsored our trip and works exclusively on the Heart of Haiti initiative for Macy’s) gathered in our van and drove to neighboring Croix-des-Bouquets,a famous artist community in Port-au-Prince known for its metal art.
METAL ARTISAN STUDIOS SERIES
Agnes specialized in minimalist, geometric patterns, while Helen produced bold, colorful abstracts.This post is part of a series on my recent trip to Haiti as part of Heart of Haiti’s #Bloggers4Haiti trip. The 'Helena Martin' name is actually a pseudonym inspired by two of our favorite contemporary female artists, Helen Frankenthaler and Agnes Martin. The crisp silver metal finishes exude the ultimate in high-end class and sophistication. This collection ranges from abstract to minimalist, creating gorgeous focal points and conversation pieces in contemporary, modern and urban settings. Each piece is extremely light-receptive, and the calculated directional patterns create brilliant movement and a spectacular three dimensional effect in the light. This mastery of metal grinding and finishing techniques has resulted in both fluid, organic designs as well as precise, geometric designs, each of which produce beautifully natural silver-hued or vibrant-colored artwork with incredible depth and dimension. The artist implements a myriad of grinding, sanding, cutting, painting, finishing and sometimes even flatbed acrylic printing techniques to create the holographic patterns and metallic undertones in the artwork. Each piece is an original multiple, which is to say, an original piece of hand-crafted artwork with designs, patterns, textures and/or color palettes that the artist can closely recreate every time. Our ‘Helena Martin’ line is a growing collection of contemporary works with an emphasis on texture, depth, dimension, and layers rather than flat prints.
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