The meaning of my work involves exploring my self-identity. I strive to create a message that allows viewers to engage with identity, history, and emotion, something that people can relate to.
The central message of my work revolves around identity, cultural preservation, and displacement, particularly through the lens of young Puerto Rican women. My art bridges personal experience and collective history, addressing belonging, loss, and reclamation themes. By incorporating self-portraiture, images of my family, and symbols from Puerto Rican culture, I strive to create art that brings to mind the complexities of diasporic identity and the struggle to maintain cultural connections despite geographical and linguistic barriers.
One of the pressing issues I want my work to explore is the erasure and gentrification of Puerto Rican spaces, both on the island and in diaspora communities. To create work highlights how colonial history and ongoing economic crises have forced many Puerto Ricans to migrate, leading to a sense of cultural fragmentation. Through my pieces, I aim to highlight these ideas as it has affected me and my family, wanting to show how identity is always shifting and growing.
I want my audience to feel a sense of connection, whether it be recognition from fellow Puerto Ricans or newfound awareness from those outside the culture. Ideally, my work will be received as both deeply personal and widely relevant, allowing viewers to reflect on their own experiences with belonging and identity
My work is an exploration of self-identity, belonging, and cultural memory as a Puerto Rican woman navigating the complexities of displacement. Through painting, I examine the tensions between presence and absence, language and silence, home and distance. I use symbolic imagery, coquí frogs that do not sing. To represent the fragility of cultural connection and the resilience of memory.
Through my art, I seek to create spaces where viewers can reflect on their histories, their migrations, and how identity is shaped by forces both seen and unseen. My work is an act of preservation, an offering, and a conversation a way to reclaim, relearn, and reconnect.
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| Nature Transformation, prints,2024 |
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| Bandera, acrylic, 2023 |
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Blooming in Borikén, oil, 2024 |
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| recuerdos, chalk pastel, 2022 |
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