Rachel Domondis a self-taught Haitian artist based in Roxbury, MA. Her art explores themes of land, sovereignty and pride in home, drawing from the revolutionary and traditional cultural motives of peoples’ movements both in the U.S. and abroad, past and present. She most often refers to the relationship between Black - namely, Haitian and Caribbean women - and the working of the land, while drawing on the power of coumbite, a traditional Haitian practice of the collective. She seeks to make art that speaks to working peoples’ realities under the global systems that keep us disenfranchised and disempowered, while highlighting the beauty, pride and power of the roots from which we’ve grown as peoples’ movements past and present. She hopes to continue to make art for the people through the creation of accessible, public materials - from installations and murals to mass printing propaganda.
Some of her artistic inspirations include Emory Douglass, Elizabeth Catlett, Claude Dambreville, Claudia Jones, and Jacques-Enguerrand Gourgue. |