She appeared at Bois Caïman on August 14, 1791 — and she's been appearing ever since.
This is the Black Madonna. This is Erzulie Dantor, the Haitian Loa who showed up when enslaved people called out into the dark of a forest and asked for a way forward. She gave them radical faith. She gave them a plan. And Haiti became the first Black republic to break free from slavery — the first proof that it could be done.
This print began as a commissioned Juneteenth mural for Burlington City Arts in 2022 — a 12×16 foot vinyl installation on the wall of the Fletcher Free Library in Burlington, Vermont. It was my first mural ever. On the day it was installed, there was a double rainbow ring around the sun. I have never felt more certain of my purpose than I did in that moment.
She is the piece that started everything. The Color Pilgrimage exists because of her.
The Black Madonna holds a child — and in that image I have always felt both at once: the child reaching for warmth, and the mother offering it. She is the bond between the young and the old, the physical and the metaphysical, the spiritual and the scientific. She is what Haiti gave the African diaspora: the living proof that freedom is not only possible, but ancestrally guaranteed.
She belongs on your wall. She belongs in your home. She belongs wherever you are doing the work of becoming.
The Violet Threshold: Violet is the color of the crown — of transformation complete, of the pilgrim who has walked every color and arrived. The Black Madonna lives here because she is not the beginning of the journey. She is the reason the journey exists at all.
Professionally framed and printed on premium paper. Made to order.
She appeared at Bois Caïman on August 14, 1791 — and she's been appearing ever since.
This is the Black Madonna. This is Erzulie Dantor, the Haitian Loa who showed up when enslaved people called out into the dark of a forest and asked for a way forward. She gave them radical faith. She gave them a plan. And Haiti became the first Black republic to break free from slavery — the first proof that it could be done.
This print began as a commissioned Juneteenth mural for Burlington City Arts in 2022 — a 12×16 foot vinyl installation on the wall of the Fletcher Free Library in Burlington, Vermont. It was my first mural ever. On the day it was installed, there was a double rainbow ring around the sun. I have never felt more certain of my purpose than I did in that moment.
She is the piece that started everything. The Color Pilgrimage exists because of her.
The Black Madonna holds a child — and in that image I have always felt both at once: the child reaching for warmth, and the mother offering it. She is the bond between the young and the old, the physical and the metaphysical, the spiritual and the scientific. She is what Haiti gave the African diaspora: the living proof that freedom is not only possible, but ancestrally guaranteed.
She belongs on your wall. She belongs in your home. She belongs wherever you are doing the work of becoming.
The Violet Threshold: Violet is the color of the crown — of transformation complete, of the pilgrim who has walked every color and arrived. The Black Madonna lives here because she is not the beginning of the journey. She is the reason the journey exists at all.
Professionally framed and printed on premium paper. Made to order.
