Puerto Rican memory, art history, tea, museum moments, studio thoughts, cultural questions and the things I can't stop thinking about.
Nine recent essays from my desk. Click any image or link to read the complete piece.
NOTE 01
A gold can, a whole island of memory. Medalla, design, diaspora and the strange way an ordinary object can quietly learn how to carry home.
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NOTE 02
What happens when a famous name starts pulling harder than the evidence? José Campeche, Amalia Cletos Noa and the strange gravity of reputation.
NOTE 03
Before baggage claim, Puerto Rico is already introducing itself. A monumental Boricua landscape and the hands that brought it together at SJU.
NOTE 04
Sometimes the research keeps talking after you hit publish. The Renoir tea I learned afterward, and why loving the art does not require sanitizing the artist.
NOTE 05
Three minutes. One museum theft. A wartime paper trail. And a painting that somehow managed to become a mystery more than once.
