Michael Bertiaux: VUDU CARTOGRAPHY
1st 2010 176pp Fulgur Landscape hardback. Illustrated in colour throughout. Full brown cloth with device and titling in black. Nm in NM dustwrapper.
Ltd. Ed. 466/708. This copy includes an original A5 (2 sided) prospectus and a colour postcard. 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."