A pioneer in the art of voodoo flags, a practice which used to be reserved exclusively for men, Myrlande Constant learns the craft as a child by helping her mother who worked in a wedding dress factory. From 1990 Constant began to “paint with beads” and to make her Drapo Vodou, becoming the first female textile artist to open a workshop in Haiti and to obtain international recognition for her work. Thanks to the particular technique of the “drum stitch” Constant is able to create flags much larger, much more pictorial and more elaborate than the classic drapes made for ceremonies. She draws her greatest inspiration from her father, a Christian voodoo priest, and from the spirits that guide her art, as she herself says.
