Who's the Fool? How to Patch a Leaky Roof
April 2019
Little Haiti
Who’s The Fool? How To Patch A Leaky Roof
Project by Michelle Lisa Polissaint and Najja Moon
Artists Najja Moon and Michelle Lisa Polissaint create and distribute free umbrellas advertising their home neighborhood of Little Haiti.
The umbrellas are designed to mimic those of another neighborhood and were distributed to residents and placed on doorsteps in Little Haiti during the month of April 2019.
The project brings attention to Miami's gentrification machine through the detail of one small, but widely visible object: a free umbrella.
Each umbrella features a short poem/proverb in Creole, roughly translated as, "A leaky roof can fool the sun but cannot fool the rain."
The umbrellas were a gift to residents in the community but also continue to exist, through their documentation, as an invitation to the larger Miami community to join us in combating this much larger issue.
