Michael Bertiaux: VUDU CARTOGRAPHY
1st 2010 176pp Fulgur Landscape hardback. Illustrated in colour throughout. Brown cloth with design and titling foiled in black. Lightly rubbed at edges else VG+ in VG+ dustwrapper.
Ltd. Ed. 685/708, two Fulgur postcards with artwork by Bertiaux loosely inserted. Vudu Cartography explores the mysteries of ‘Les Vudu’ through chants, oracles, seances and a symbolic system of images – all connected by a descriptive narrative which leads us, like a dusty highway, through the shimmering Haitian landscape.
Drawn from his rich experiences in Haiti, Bertiaux’s own evocative voudon art brut creates a map for those regions of invisible power, giving the reader strange ingress to the ‘mysteries and hiddenesses of an exotic theology, with its spiritist twists and turns and esoteric spaces.’

