Heathens Garden , 2025
Cement, fabric, clay, wood, foam, polo shirt, metal armature and live zinnias
Installed outdoors, Heathens is a work in progress fusing cast garments and cement with live flowers i cultivate for the sculpture growing directly from its body. The figure is both ruin and vessel: part human, part plant, part urban debris. By embedding zinnias from my own garden into the cement body, the work collapses the distinction between monument and living matter, between mourning and regeneration.
Situated outside Santurce’s post-industrial landscape, Heathens Garden (2025) underscores the fragility of survival in Puerto Rico’s precarious context. It transforms debris from collapse into a site of growth, echoing both ritual offerings and funerary monuments. The work is emblematic of my practice: merging sculpture, performance, and ecology to create unstable forms that resist commodification and instead look towards community, regeneration and transformation.