I am in the pursuit of explorations. I associate closely with Poliphilo looking for Polia (Many Things). My exploratory pursuits have been issues of protests around the world, predominantly in Haiti. Leading to the ongoing series La Valeur de Revolte. Other current searches question what does it means to be a strong man. In particular, the series Gason Solid explores masculinity divorced from the body as a solid tangible mass locating it instead within the heart and the mind. In general, my work looks at my experiences both imagined and lived and drawing from vivid dream spirals.
I was born on late June day in 1976 in Potoprens, Ayiti. I moved to New York in August 1989. In March 2010 I returned to Potoprens still straddling the shores of New York and recently Miami. Having lived in these cities, I see myself of all of these cities, but maybe What I have become is a New Yorker and a Potoprensyen. I am influenced by the culture of cities and the many issues which affect cities within the realm of art and architecture. I equally influenced by traditions, techniques and ancestral knowledge still existing in rural communities.
My relationship with painting began at the start of my graduate studies in architecture at Pratt Institute (1999 to 2001). In 2003 I started making work that propelled me to further explore more this side of my self. Since then painting has become a means to explore issues of migration, language, love and rituals. My first exhibition was in 2009 at the CEEFLAT in Greenpoint Brooklyn, New York. Along architecture, my practice has expanded into making furniture, craft and sculpting through Sèvi-Tè.