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Vegigante Visiting
Read moreVegigante Visiting (2025) re-imagines the Puerto Rican Vejigante as a matriarchal force of transformation. Its radiant horns and feathers reclaim feminine power through ancestral spectacle. Confronting colonial modernity, the figure asserts Afro-TaĂno resilience and female agency—turning carnival into resistance, visibility, and joy. A feminist spirit dances through color and defiance.
Dimensions: 30 in x 24 in. Original artwork painting. oil on canvasNeed a different size or media? Want it framed? 👆let me quote you!
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Chicken Without a Head
Read moreChicken without a Head (Vegigante in Flatiron) (2025)
Feeling like a chicken without a head is a common experience of those who first arrive to the city. This piece presents a vivid, surreal scene where a flamboyant chicken becomes a vejigante mask—painted in fiery reds, golds, and oranges. The head floats through an abstracted urban landscape of New York City. Feeling like a chicken without a head is a common experience of those who first arrive to the city. Buildings are massive and The Flatiron Building rises ghostlike in the background, its iconic triangular form softened by expressive brushstrokes of blue, lavender, and white. The contrast between the playful, horned mask and the monumental city architecture creates a vibrant collision of cultural iconography and modern urban space.
This artwork embodies the dialogue between Puerto Rican tradition and the modern metropolis. The vejigante, a folkloric figure rooted in Afro-Caribbean, Spanish, and TaĂno heritage, bursts into the New York streets with carnival intensity. Its horns pierce through the cool geometry of the city, symbolizing the persistence of cultural identity in spaces often marked by anonymity and erasure.
The Flatiron, a landmark of New York’s architectural modernity, becomes both stage and backdrop for this transposed festival spirit. Here, the vejigante does not merely arrive—it claims space, turning steel and stone avenues into a living canvas of rhythm, resistance, and celebration. The painting suggests that diasporic identity thrives through visibility: tradition and folklore are not lost in migration, but rather reinvented and made monumental against the skyline of the diaspora city.
Dimensions: 33 in x 48 in. Original artwork painting. Acrylic on canvas, some mixed media.
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Caffeinated Morning Owl
Read moreCaffeinated Morning Owl (2025) This is a highly stylized, anthropomorphic owl clutching a white coffee cup.
I love owls and all that they represent: wisdom and reverence. I think of myself as an owl each morning holding my cup, reminded of all the wisdom that is already inside of me waiting to be explored.I hope to be able to share the spirit of the owl and owning your value through inner reverence, and uncover your innate wisdom.
Dimensions: 18 in x 36 in (45 x 91 cm) Original artwork, digital paintingÂ
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