Isla de Las Palmas 

Isla de Las Palmas gathers a body of work made in Puerto Rico during the years following my return to the island in midlife, after nearly a decade away following the death of my cousin Carlitos. The photographs, books, prints, and exhibitions collected here come from a period in which I was learning, changing, and being taught—through family, through history, and through the lived experience of the island itself—while beginning to understand my own place within the longer story of the Puerto Rican diaspora. What began as return became a way of understanding my place within Puerto Rico and its ongoing historical condition.

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Rather than a single project, Isla de Las Palmas became a field of related works shaped by that process. The images and forms presented here reflect an evolving identity and an evolving practice: sequences, handmade books, exhibition installations, experimental prints, and collaborative publications that emerged from the same sustained period of looking and making. Together they mark a distinct era in my work, one that closed around the end of 2023 and gave rise to newer Puerto Rico-based projects.

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