Each flag demands thousands of sequins, placed one by one in patterns passed through generations of manbo and oungan.
The jewel-tones are deliberate — competing colors mirror the lwa's competing claims on a devotee's spirit.
Saints stand beside lwa not as colonial erasure but as living revolutionary syncretism — chosen and sacred.
Hung in a peristil, sequin-encrusted panels turn ordinary wood into sacred shimmering threshold.