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Haiti - assignment for Geo France.\n\nMost of the Port au Prince sculptors do live in tiny streets nearby the Grand Rue, which is the main avenue that runs a north-south swathe through downtown Port au Prince.\nAll the artists grew up in this atmosphere of junkyard make-do, survivalist recycling and artistic endeavour. Their powerful sculptural collages of engine manifolds, TV sets, wheel hubcaps and discarded lumber have transformed the detritus of a failing economy into bold, radical and warped sculptures. Their work references their shared African & Haitian cultural heritage, a dystopian sci-fi view of the future and the positive transformative act of assemblage.