Cool Breeze Wall Art

To make this intricate work of metal art, artisans of Comite Artisanal Haitien clean 55 gallon steel oil drums, cut them open, pound them flat, and then mark designs with chalk. They cut through the metal using a chisel to achieve their locally-inspired designs. It is intensely physical artwork. This cut metalwork from Croix des Bouquets, a small village outside Port-au-Prince, is among Haiti's most original heritage art forms. The tradition began in the early 1930s with Georges Liataud's imaginative cemetery crosses crafted from this recycled metal.