Peterson Dessalines

I was born in Haiti in 1974. At that time, even under a fierce dictatorship, children could have a joyful experience of childhood. From hanging to tree branches, flying a self-made kite to long lasting soccer game without referee, life was full of adventurous treks. First, I was informally introduced to the world of art by these street artists who populated the country and continue to do so. Colorful and elongated thread-like bodies depicting in canvas make you wonder if life sceneries is possibly like that in some sort of alternate realities? Second, my school director, one of the most prominent figure of Haitian artists, Mr. FrankEtienne, used to have hanging in his office some of its abstract artwork, who appeared to me very bizarre at that time. Your imagination will go wild trying to figure out what that might be, and once you think getting it, a second look at the picture would make you doubt that you ever seen what you think you did previously. Everything seemed to be so evanescent and changing. This experience was very inspiring to me in the sense he had let puzzled all the time. Time passes by and, I have become a self-taught artist. In my art world, I tend to practice what I called the non-intervention: just let the flow of my imagination and the free movements of my hand and fingers with the stylus at the end do they “thing “or they “think”. Using mixed-media as media, traditional and digital (NTIC), I like that non- representational and impressionistic language that are often the result. If I had ever wanted to communicate something, it will be the idea that we are all bearing art inside of us in one way or another, we might simply want to set it free and let it happen.




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