Haitian art by Frantz Zephirin from Galerie Macondo est. This is Room Z17. For A biography and Photograph of Zephirin click here.
Man falls to earth from the skies, into a hostile environment symbolized here by wild animals.
Shango is the spirit of nature in the Rada rite of Haitian Vodou. She is changing into a bird. Agassou is the vodou spirit who will give you immense wealth and success, but afterward, he will ask much more than you are willing to pay. There's a Haitian proverb that says it's better to be eaten by a snake than by a fish, because when the snake eats you, you suffocate almost immediately, but the fish nibbles and nibbles and it takes forever to die.