Field notes
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Caribbean · 2022

Haiti

The essay

What's magical about this country?

Haiti is a country that refuses to be small. Its painters saturate a wall the way its poets saturate a page — completely, unapologetically, with a kind of joy that has already survived. Jacmel in January smells like coffee and salt, and every mural argues for beauty as a form of resistance.

Rue du Commerce — Jacmel
Rue du Commerce — Jacmel
In the studio of Prosper Pierre-Louis
In the studio of Prosper Pierre-Louis