"The art of compliance"

1930s and the 1970s, an estimated one-third of all Puerto Rican women of childbearing age were sterilized—the highest rate in the world at that time, the reason?  the solution to a growing problem to the united states the growing population of Puerto Ricans and their need to control the population.

"the Restrain"

La Danza is historically a formal, highly structured 19th-century ballroom dance elegant, elite, and unyielding in its geometry. In this piece, i tap into the feeling, metaphor and the psychological reality of living as a colonial subject. We are forced to dance to the rigid steps of a song we did not choose, dancing with a power that dictates the tempo and absolute refusal to let us lead. Visually framed by blocks of restraint and systemic limitations, the work explores the illusion of mobility. While the act of dance promises expansiveness mirroring the freedom to migrate away to the mainland the departure only reveals a deeper displacement. From across the ocean, the true gravity of the rhythm sets in: a profound, lingering melancholy for the beautiful, restricted ballroom we were forced to leave behind.

"La danza "

The chair in this piece calls for constraint, compliance, and stillness. It acts as a surrogate for that forced containment, representing the historical and psychological pressures to sit still, blend in, and shrink. To comply was to survive.this artwork blends that rigid, domestic call to sit down and not take up space with the fierce, rebellious, and loud energy of the Vejigante. Using a visceral red as a vehicle to portray the defiant, untamable spirit of Boricuas, the chair becomes a site of conflict. It is a homage to the enduring spirit of Puerto Rican resistance.

Despite centuries of systemic suppression, shame, and laws designed to criminalize our identity and existence, our spirit shined through. Even in moments when we were forced to sit and comply, we were still loud. We took up space not with words, not with language, but with our manchas. The love we feel for our Puerto Rico, our culture, and our traditions will always rupture the frame.

"El cafecito" this piece Is me making art that feels my heart with joy, allowed myself to have fun and play, its the result of me loving the feeling and the smell of a fresh bash of coffee and my little character the red vejigante energizing me in the mornings.