Taíno Emergence [Prints Available]

This piece is an expression of embracing my identity with my Taino indigenous culture and a language legacy from my grandmother. She used Taino words like "batey" and "ditas" and "jicotea".
The lustrous metallic gold streaks render an impressionistic flow of one of many picturesque waterfalls in the Island of Puerto Rico. She stands on a threshold of neither here nor there as an expression of my journey from an “incomplete identity” during return migration between Puerto Rico and New York growing up to a realization of a complementary identity and being comfortable in my own skin, my language and peoples.