Vladimir Cybil Charlier
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SUPERSTITIONS PORTFOLIO with ARCEO PRESS
(23 artists collaborative project)​
“Papa Loko ou se ven, pote’m ale; ou se papiyon wa pote nouvel by Agwe…”
“Papa Loko, you are the wind, carry me; you are a butterfly and will bring news to
Agwe…” (Traditional)
 
A very large dark moth enters an old gingerbread house, at dusk, and lands near the ceiling. Long handled brooms are fetched to chase that “bad spirit” immediately from the house as, if they land upside down, bad news or death will sure follow…. From Mexico to the Caribbean and Latin America, a strong mythology follows the erebid moth ascalapha odorata. In Haiti, those “Papa Loko butterflies” are named after the powerful God of Healing of Dahomean and Taino origin.
 
I’m told that they are sometimes killed with salt, and flipped over so that the numbers that are a sure win at the national lottery can be deciphered on their wings…

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  • WORKS
    • Prints >> >
      • Dream Deferred
      • Pantéon Project
      • Superstitions
      • Prints from 'The Voodoo Child'
      • ArtQuake 2010
      • 1805 for $999.99
    • Installations / Commissions >> >
      • Shipwreck
      • The Harlem Quilts
      • The Stranger Next Door
      • DESIRE, Johnny Was
      • Untitled, (Guédé Mani)
      • AIDS Chronicles 2010
      • Time Life Jungle
    • The Voodoo Child
    • Map-Requiem
    • Endezo-Haitian Paintings
    • Haitiana-Modules
    • Thezain-Synthesis
    • Collaborations >> >
      • Dream Deferred
      • Memories of a Utopic Island
      • Superstitions
      • The Politics of Paradise
  • About
  • Contact