Wood, String, Plastic, Graphite, Acrylic, LCD Screens, 2012

Dimensions Variable

This installation treats history and identity as provisional structures shaped by time, exposure, and use. Like a temporary shelter or a domestic space altered through growth and repair, the environments we construct are continuously assembled and dismantled. Moving between expansive geographies and intimate interiors, the work maps place as a fluid site of exchange, where landscapes are reshaped through their relationship to the people who inhabit them rather than fixed narratives of location.

Grounded in the recurring paths of hurricanes across the Caribbean, Gulf Basin, and the US South, the installation examines how shared environmental forces generate overlapping cultural and psychological conditions across borders. Puerto Rico functions as a central point of entry, where cycles of destruction and reconstruction expose the instability of both physical terrain and collective memory. The work asks how landscapes register crisis, how memory is mapped, and how identities are continually rewritten under environmental pressure, bringing these questions into the gallery as lived, contemporary concerns.