Capicú

His artist statement reads: “Capicú explores the effects love, death, grief, and time have had on my place in my family’s legacy.  Through drawing, printmaking, installation, and photography, I have created portals that peer into my life and the life of my ancestors.  These bind together to form a whole story, unifying drawn imagery, photographs, and written reflections to share some consejos (wisdoms) that  my family and I have inherited and distilled along the way.”

“This exhibition is my response to the research, the archiving, the listening, the grieving, and, ultimately, the accepting.  It reflects the complexities of my personal, familial, and cultural systems, peeling back the layers of generational progress and highlighting the power of choice, of strategy and intention in the midst of hardship and generational baggage.  Capicú, a term from the Puerto Rican game of dominos, is in essence a win-win: the mano(game)-ending product of team-based strategy and careful observation that leaves a single player with the ability to choose how they are going to claim victory.  This work is my strategy, my careful attempt at claiming victory for both my people and me, if even for just this chapter.  After all, there are more manos to play.”