Artista visual, reside y trabaja en Santurce, Puerto Rico. Se desempeña principalmente en las disciplinas de ilustración, elaboración de pinturas naturales, texto y video. Su labor creativo se guía por la teoría y práctica ecofeminista, la investigación etnobotánica, la historia de comunidades indígenas del Caribe y las prácticas regenerativas conectadas a la tierra y a la soberanía alimentaria.

To support the preservation of indigenous linguistic and ethnobotanical investigation by creating an illustrated publication based on native ethnographer Oscar Lamourt Valentín’s “Mitología Lareía”. Lamourt Valentín made the first etymological and linguistic study of jíbaro words by connecting Taíno words still present in jíbaro vocabulary with Mayan language. As part of his investigation, he published a collection of myths from his hometown in Lares, which are rich in jíbaro vocabulary and botanical references. Through transcribed audio interviews with local native researchers and members of the Canjíbaro movement, I will contextualize his work to better illustrate and color these myths.