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Pa’l Monte (to the Mountains) is the newest collection of works relating to the hills of Puerto Rico. It includes landscape drawings made as an act of remembering through the body. The act of large-scale drawing and site-specific installation becomes a vehicle for embodied knowledge of my ancestral homeland. It also demonstrates the slippage of memory, and a gestures toward archiving legacy.
Ceiba #2
Inspired by photos from my most recent trip to the mountains of Puerto Rico. Through embodied knowledge, I am compelled to learn the curves and lines of the island through my fingers in my large scale drawings to better understand the land of my parents
Hermanas #1
PanPastel and charcoal on Arches Paper
2023
Hermanas (Sisters) 1 is the first in the series of drawings in this series. These drawings are of trees and plants that I observed and photographed on a trip to Puerto Rico with my family. Through these meditative drawings, I aim to learn the lines and curves of Puerto Rico through my fingertips.
Hermanas #3
“...gratitude, resistance and surrender”
22x30”
2024
Panpastel on Arches BFK paper
Exhibition History:
Quiero Ir Pa’l Monte (I want to go to the Mountains)
Stanliar Gallery, Washington and Lee University, 2024
at the foot of a 400 year old Ceiba tree (site specific installation)
Created on location in Lexington, Virginia’s Staniar Gallery, part of my solo exhibition “Quiero Ir Pa’l Monte”, curated by Andrea LePage.
I combined an improvised wall painting of the roots of an ancient Ceiba tree, with a canopy made of repurposed "urban” materials (strips of hoodies, jeans, hair extensions, beads) to create an interpreted canopy.