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document.write("<p>“I am Joseph Jean Peterson. I have originated in Haiti in April, 1982.  I am married. I have two small boys.”  In this way, Joseph introduces himself.  He is a handsome man with a slow, but genuine smile.  His workshop, “The St. Charles Bird Workshop” is a lively colorful place, with sunset orange-colored walls and the constant cacophony of clanging, banging metal against metal.  A family-oriented man, he opened his shop with his mother and older brother in 1997, having previously apprenticed with Jean Roosevelt Bauchard.</p><p>His imagery is versatile; Joseph’s creative mind running the gamut from mermaids and fish in the seas to gardens of sunflowers and children at play, to stars in the heavens.  His masks can be representative of surprised school girls in dread-lock pigtails or fearsome 3-D warriors from dark and savage jungles. There is such a range in his designs as to lead one to the conclusion that he can do it all.</p><p>Joseph is well aware that his work is important not only to his family, but to his community as well.  He says, “I helped many people to learn this sculpture.  My dream is to have a larger workshop and give more people work. I trust in God that my dream will be realized.” </p>");
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