Mi arte

As a child, I had to leave my home in Puerto Rico. Thinking I was entering a world of abundance and prosperity, I was met with a space of imagination. Reality was fragmented, and the lines between nightmares and dreams blurred. My artwork responds to that fragmented reality, bringing forward questions like: “Who am I? Where am I from? What is home?” and “Where is belonging?” Using childlike drawings with traditional forms found in the Caribbean, I take these estranged pieces, those fragments that are familiar yet obscured, to speak to a reality many children of diaspora feel.