Ciguapa is the first anchor work of Vuelta a Quisqueya, the piece that encodes the Caribbean body as myth. La Ciguapa is the female Antillean figure with inverted feet, her tracks confuse the pursuer. Folklore that will not be caught.
The dimensional cranium emerges from the cerulean field. One eye closed, one eye open. The double gaze looking inward and outward at the same time, diasporic body inhabiting two places without splitting. Filaments of gold emerge from the cranium, thought made matter. A clinical radiation thermoplastic mesh remains visible beneath the resin as armature of the face, flight carries structure, survival becomes form.
In the lower-left quadrant, beside the neck, two larimar cabochons from the Dominican Republic sit embedded in resin atop the clay impression of my daughter's footprints. Four presences concentrated in one zone of the linen, the geology of Quisqueya in two sizes (mother, mineral daughter), the body of the next generation, and my hand as mediator between the three times.
The work operates by centrifugal force, pushes the viewer outward, sends them searching. It is the piece that opens the cosmology. Conceptual pair to Piedra de Bahoruco, together they do not decorate the Caribbean, they argue it.
