Picture in Focus: Trumpeting Angel by Unknown Haitian Metalworker

December 11, 2022

Picture in Focus: Trumpeting Angel by Unknown Haitian Metalworker

Hark! The herald angels play the trumpet to announce the birth of Christ in this festive metal sculpture from Haiti. The delightful heavenly being with embossed wings and spiralling dreadlocks is the creation of an unknown metalworker from the Noailles district of Croix-des-Bouquets, where artisans hammer used oil drums from the harbor of the Haitian capital of Port-du-Prince into imaginative sculptural pieces like this horn-blowing angel. Oil drum art recycling projects have brought much needed income to this poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere. (John Kohan)