FRACTO

My work seeks to document and examine neglected moments found in Puerto Rico’s current urban landscape. I find these spaces, forms, and patterns reveal our collective psyche throughout Puerto Rico’s colonial history. I utilize perspective drawing, applying layers of lines, acrylic, aerosol, and vinyl, to create the illusion of space and invite viewers to interact from a particular point of view. These constructions exist between the realm of reality and imaginary; in a plane of constant ideation and timelessness. I create these paintings without a clear view of the outcome, responding and reacting to the composition, lines, textures, colors, and forms. I reference Puerto Rico’s typology of the constructed living space, The Home, when faced with destruction and abandonment. These peripheral sights of decay, caused by conditions of poverty, marginalization, hurricanes and natural disasters, property inheritance disputes and bankruptcies, which all contribute to one of the largest emigrations to date, are patterns that repeat- beyond aesthetics and slip into our perceptions of self-worth. This fragmented reality implies levels of precariousness and layers of coexisting with a landscape that is collapsing on us. I reconfigure this as a reflection: We shape the landscape that shapes us, acknowledging the landscape as a mirror.