Art
Houngan Silva Joseph meurt à 81
- Wednesday, Juillet 27, 2011 Le PM 02:50
Joseph Silva, un fabricant de drapeau vodou, est décédé ce matin des complications de santé. Défendre Haïti a appris que le 81 ans avait souffert de problèmes de santé qui attribuent son décès.
The correspondence received:
Silva, a well known houngan from Bel Air, died this morning. His son Jean Wisler rang me to tell me the sad news.
Silva was well known, amongst other things, for his beautiful vodou flags. His son Jn Wisler is carrying on this tradition.
Silva had suffered a stroke a couple of years ago and was paralysed down one side, and was in very poor health. About two weeks ago, when I was at his house with a visitor, buying some flags, his son told me that his father had gone into hospital that morning.
Photos and Flags: Houngan Silva , Banner 1 , Banner 2 , Banner 3 , Banner 4 , Banner 5 , Banner 6
Silva Joseph was born in Leogane, Haiti in 1930. He was initiated into vodou in 1955, and became a houngan in 1970. He created his first vodou flag in 1972. He operates a peristil or temple and studio in the BelAir neighborhood of Port-au-Prince. He works in the tradition of BelAir's famous flag artists, such as Tibout, Joseph Fortine and Luc Daniel Cedor.
Silva Joseph's work is published in Sequin Artists of Haiti (Girouard, 1994) and Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou (Cosentino, 1995).
Source: Indigo Arts , Sequin Artists of Haiti (Girouard, 1994), Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou (Cosentino, 1995)
