Portfolio One: Albums
The images in these albums, with the exception of “Cuba, I Never Left You”, were not initially created or grouped thematically as their titles might suggest. It was with time and distance that I began to see connections emerge that revealed deeper, unintended meanings.
Cuba.I never met you
InterBeings
12”x18”
“We cannot separate human beings from the environment. The environment is in human beings and human beings are part of the environment…" -Thich Nhat Hanh
Body Electric
12”x18”
Where did you go, my darling?
12”x18”
These pieces were created in the months following the passing of my dear friend and collaborator, Margo. One of the multimedia events we produced together featured the American astronomer Edwin Hubble. One day, I came across a publication called The Marginalian. Inside was an essay by Maria Popova titled What Happens When We Die, accompanied by an illustration—an infrared photograph taken with the Hubble Space Telescope. It bore a striking resemblance to the images I had been creating. The essay opens with a moving story:
“When my atheist engineer grandfather died, my atheist engineer grandmother leaned over the body in the hospice bed that had contained half a century of shared life and love, cradled the cranium in which his stubborn and sensitive mind had dwelt, and whispered into the halogen-lit ether: ‘Where did you go, my darling?’”
RESIST
11'‘x14” & 12”x18”
Light
12”x18”
The Shadow
12”x18”
The Painbody
12”x18”
The pain body is Eckart Tolle’s term for the emotional pain we carry from the past that embeds itself in our bodies. These images hint at the ways grief takes up residence.
Cuba, I never met you
I’m a third-generation Cuban, but unlike my sister, I never had the chance to visit. These images were made by deconstructing photo books of Cuba - not with a political message, but as a personal response. Each carries emotional resonance, but no intentional narrative.
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