America, a Journey as a Metaphor, 2025 - On going

In 1995, I arrived in the United States from Cuba, leaving behind a communist dictatorship for the radical promise of self-reinvention. For thirty years, I have called this country home, living through the defining chapters of my life—my 30s, 40s, and now my 50s—decades anchored by the freedom to be, to express, and to reinvent. I love my adopted country deeply, yet as I navigate my 50s under the current Administration, I am struck by a profound sadness. I am witnessing the "perfectly imperfect" beauty of this democracy become something increasingly unrecognizable.

“America, a Journey as a Metaphor” is an ongoing photographic meditation born from this tension. The series explores the widening gap between the America I discovered three decades ago and the urgent, often paradoxical realities of the present day. The work comprises everyday scenes captured starting in 2025, juxtaposed with archival photographs that I have digitally intervened in. Both the straight photographs and the digital interventions serve as a "visual denouncement"—a method of interrogating how collective and personal histories are being re-framed in today’s social and political climate.

I aim to expose the fragility of the present. The journey evoked in this work is not merely geographical, but symbolic and psychological: roads, landscapes, and faces become metaphors for resilience, fragility, conflict, and hope. By oscillating between the immediate and the remembered, the series invites viewers to pause and consider the evolving contours of democracy and belonging. It is my invitation to bear witness to a country in flux while asserting the enduring capacity of photography to interrogate, denounce, and inspire.