Ogun is a potent principle/loa of the Haitian and African spiritual practice of Vodun. One of the male 'mysteries' of Vodun Ogun is referred to in Western writing as the "God of war" as metal is his primary attribute which he forges using both art and science. The dates in the title marks the Haitian Revolution, a war of liberation in which the invocation of Ogun is crucial. The work seeks to intimate the violence of war and the sewing or mending (healing) of a tattered land or fabric of life.
