Client: National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture
Dimensions: N & S walls - 8 x 24 each - , and E & W walls - 20 x 24 - each.
Execution Time:
12/15/2023 - 01/08/2024
Description:
"Taíno Staircase" is an immersive art experience that features petroglyphs and symbols from the indigenous peoples of the Antilles. The artist utilizes these ancient symbols to create a composition that conveys meanings tied to his culture—such as origin, motherland, migration, and the disruption caused by colonialism. The mural unfolds in a flowing movement, with the symbols gradually saturating the composition until the image is abruptly interrupted by the numbers "1492." These fading into white senses a moment of mystery, as a result the erasure of the historical accounts of the natives, by the ‘destruction of the indies’ accounted by Bartolomé de las Casas on 1542. Beyond its immersive nature, the artwork culminates framing a fine artwork on a canvas that depicts three Taíno figures in an abstract-figurative style.