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30” x 40”
Stretched canvas
Acrylic | Marker
Salón Boricua was a barbershop owned by Vidal Santiago Díaz. He was the personal barber of Nationalist leader Pedro Albizu Campos. Though not involved in the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party Revolts of the 1950s, Santiago Díaz's barbershop was attacked by forty armed police officers and U.S. National Guardsmen. The attack was historic in Puerto Rico—the first time an event of that magnitude had ever been transmitted live via radio and heard all over the island.
As you see this piece from afar the shape of the Puerto Rican flag is visible in its rough design but as you move closer to the piece, details emerge, windows, balconies, door ways, and the recognizable barber shop pole. Similar to my journey, a flag from afar, but as I move closer, details of my history.
30” x 40”
Stretched canvas
Acrylic | Marker
Salón Boricua was a barbershop owned by Vidal Santiago Díaz. He was the personal barber of Nationalist leader Pedro Albizu Campos. Though not involved in the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party Revolts of the 1950s, Santiago Díaz's barbershop was attacked by forty armed police officers and U.S. National Guardsmen. The attack was historic in Puerto Rico—the first time an event of that magnitude had ever been transmitted live via radio and heard all over the island.
As you see this piece from afar the shape of the Puerto Rican flag is visible in its rough design but as you move closer to the piece, details emerge, windows, balconies, door ways, and the recognizable barber shop pole. Similar to my journey, a flag from afar, but as I move closer, details of my history.