One of the projects I’m working on right now is researching craft made post-earthquake in Haiti, its political, economic, cultural elements.

It’s really interesting, and having seen this article about Levoy Exil on CNN.com from March, am wondering what I could have been told if I wasn’t stopped from speaking to him more by his one-word answer to my question when I asked him about it at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. It was through a translator, he thought I was going to initially buy some art, it was awkward.

Know someone I should talk to or somewhere I should look? Although I’d be grateful to speak with someone, I’m as equally eager to find pieces made in regard to post-earthquake Haiti. Because, after all, often times what is crafted by our hands is just as telling (if not more) as what comes out of our mouths. As our hands have the tendency, unlike our mouths (despite our best intentions at times), to tell what’s really going on beneath the surface.