APPROACH

Though it started with an inquiry of diglossia (social hierarchy of language) in Haiti, where in our society Creole occupies a lower social hierarchy in comparison to French, the language of the elite also the language of the old colonizer. The project morphed to the creation of a body of work that highlighted the process and journey over form and aesthetic, valued synthesis and sampling over finite design, and that established a laboratory which comprises at its center and core, a manifesto for what is it means to be create with a Haitian lens with the Haitian Creole language at the center of a visual manifestation: “Kreyòl Lab: Manifeste, Manifesto, Manifestasyon.”

Posters

In the early stages of the research a series of posters were created to bring to life popular Haitian proverbs and saying using typography, illustration and collages.

Quilt & Collage

A paper collage was created with all the printed matter collected through visual investigation and research explored over the course of the year.

PUBLICATION

One of the output was a zine manifesto calling into question the European monopole and homogenization of design as well as cultural appropriation and aestheticization of non-europeans culture without recognition.