Ceremonial Platform Quartet 4From the Artist For the past 50years I have produced work in the Postmodernist tradition, attempting to create beautiful shapesand a movement that sends the mind flying. Not long ago, an instant of clarity came over me, and I found myself enveloped in the Brutalist movement. The architectural structures I was looking at were calling to me, asking, How can these powerful images become a part of me, and by extension, a part of my work?" I found myself

but the printer achieved a pleasing balance of black

thus we are more than friends but more like brothers/sisters

—Adapted from Tatiana Reinoza

Art that is purposely meant to bless others is what I want to share

life-death

and status as Afro-Cuban within a racial hierarchy that privileges white skin give him both an insider and outsider's perspective on Cuban life

Improvisation from a Patch Quilt is a colorful example of his assemblages

Drawing is a significant part of this work

In site-specific exhibitions

and to place yourself

Sometimes I might use a certain image continually for several months

Color Woodcut