09/13/2025
Una vez más, la vida me invita a renacer en el arte.
Tras más de un año recogida en la ternura de la maternidad, entendí que también era tiempo de dejarme sentir de nuevo, de transformar el silencio en color. 🌸
Hoy tengo la dicha de compartir una obra en Santa Fe College gracias a Latina Women’s League. En ella se revela un pedazo de mi cultura, un fragmento de mí.
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BOMBA PUERTORRIQUEÑA
“Bomba is not watched, it is felt. The leather of the drum answers the body, the song awakens memory, and the skirt turns into wind. This piece captures that instant when the dancer lifts her skirt and claims space: her movement does not merely follow the rhythm—it leads it. The flower, the land, and the green of the countryside bear witness, because in Puerto Rico, bomba cannot be separated from nature nor from its people.”
This work seeks to capture the living essence of Puerto Rican bomba, not only as an artistic expression but as an experience. Bomba is more than dance; it is dialogue, resistance, memory, and community.
Symbols of identity emerge against a vibrant blue: the maga flower as national emblem, the drum as the heartbeat, and maracas with Taíno signs as ancestral roots. The use of real fabric in the dancer’s skirt transcends the visual, evoking the physicality of movement and the bond between culture and nature.
Rather than a static image, the piece invites viewers inside the circle of bomba, where music, song, and dance create a living dialogue. It offers not just representation, but an embodied, emotional experience of Puerto Rico’s heritage.