Cuba

My island. Your island. My dreams. Your dreams. My world lost. Your world lost.

I cannot escape Cuba. I am influenced by Tania Bruguera, El Sexto, Yulier Rodriguez Perez, 2+2=5, and Luis Manuel Otero Alcantaro. Tomas Sanchez as beautiful in paint as Celia Cruz is in song.

Tito, Machito, Arturo , Ibrahim Ferrer, Dezi Arnaz, Hemingway, Leonardo Padura, and Oscar Hijuelos lead me across my father’s birthplace , my childhood and my blood. I paint to the constant pounding of El Manisero my Tia’s favorite.