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[OC] Art piece by Ramón Berríos, displayed in the Puerto Rico museum of art. (lemmy.world)
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[–] 6 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Is there any additional information about the piece, or a title? The toothy appearance of the wood carving and the stacked stone ‘bowls’ are interesting, but I’m not sure how to interpret it.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    The card next to it didn't have much information. I searched online for a little bit only finding that the artist has done numerous pieces with wood and stone like this. Similarly without deep explanations that I could find.

    I actually enjoy not knowing the intent.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

    I see what looks like a coffee bean up top, then at the bottom there’s pebbles, with crude & empty bowls in between. To me it’s a commentary on trickle down economics & colonialism, but who knows. I don’t even know if coffee is a Puerto Rican crop, so I am probably completely wrong.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Cocoa could be another visual interpretation as well, and based on some very cursory searching it looks like both have a history in Spanish colonial Puerto Rico. Now that you’ve brought up that visual aspect, the bowls remind me a bit of volcanic stone metates that are used to grind up cocoa beans (although I’m familiar with that through Costa Rica, not PR).

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