Ti Mache a Piti

Ti Mache A Piti means “the market place is small” in Creole. This series is about the depreciation of the GOURDES, the Haitian currency and the various reasons why it’s been in a steady decline. The native Haitian bourgeoisie was supposed to offer leadership and a prosperous life to its people, instead chooses shared socio-economic privileges with the colonizers and life based on imitations of the West. Instead of creating incentives for the farmers, fishermen and merchants, they deceive, corrupt, and incessantly import consumer goods and expensive military hardware, ransacking the country’s wealth. The mass population, including farmers who attempt to send their supply to the marketplaces, become at the mercy of gang members. They are killed and/or stolen from. Additionally, the outdoor marketplaces are targeted and burned down by foreigners, who own indoor market spaces, to eliminate their competition. When a country cannot sell or profit from what its land produces and heavily depends on imported goods, the result is economic disaster