https://yasminhernandez.art/cover2 daily 0.75 2025-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/479c1ce6-1282-4ab0-8470-ca014b4f0900/MocaAdidas_RematriatingBoriken_YasminHernandez.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/38f89f52-21ee-4c61-ad1b-05f020bd4974/FinalLogoCucubaNacion.letterhead.psd.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/328bc4ec-b7b4-4383-ab83-9bfc43fa55d8/Marisol_RematriatingBoriken_YasminHernandez2024.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/5c6407bb-1fb3-4fb4-8ee2-f7e2579d81a4/yasminHernandez_jellyfish.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/d4ef69bb-4c52-4719-8a49-88754e57fd5d/RemBoriPodcastLogo.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/7023b094-ed3a-43d4-b533-939d1355abc8/QuieroMiCantitoDeTierra_RematriatingBoriken_YasminHernandezArt.jpg Cover2 Max, 2024, Yasmin Hernandez Art, Portraits from the Trench, Rematriating Borikén https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/7cedb6f9-c9dd-47ba-b3ee-2819876681ae/YasminHernandezArt_CucubanoMayor.jpg Cover2 Yasmin with "El Cucubano Mayor", Portrait of Rafael Cancel Miranda 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/05600ec1-4826-42eb-a042-6413f925339a/BabyJosefasAnglerFish_YasminHernandezArt_RematriatingBoriken.jpg Cover2 Baby Josef as Angler Fish, 2021, Yasmin Hernandez Art, Portraits from the Trench, Rematriating Borikén https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/52969819-c9e4-4ac1-a300-11569a3254d5/YasminHernandezArt_LoveLessons_2018.jpg Cover2 Yasmin Hernandez with detail of "Love Lessons", commissioned by The Peoples Forum, NYC 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/093a8dcf-a52f-4154-8d63-9f1f31a96ae6/FB_IMG_1526294498939+%281%29.jpg Cover2 Yasmin Painting the CucubaNación Mural, Mayaguez, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/e6fa6de6-e623-45e3-bb05-450a10e76e8c/2017YasminHernandezArt_De-debtDecolonize.jpg Cover2 De-debt Decolonize 2017, Yasmin Hernandez Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/21fbba6e-b9b8-41a8-be90-86409fb9ce36/2016_TransmutacionDelAlma_YasminHernandez72sm.jpg Cover2 La Transmutación del Alma, (Laura Meneses y Albizu Campos) 2016, Yasmin Hernandez Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/db2d6859-5486-476c-9354-5b25472185b0/Bieke_Sobresaliente_YasminHernandezArt.jpg Cover2 Bieké: Sobresalientes, 2016, Yasmin Hernandez Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/9c37d5e9-758d-4f81-8258-025fbecc0d93/Soldaderas2011_YasminHernandezArt%2BJoeConzoPhotos.jpg Cover2 Soldaderas, 2011, Yasmin Hernandez Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/9cf6795e-080d-4928-950a-315e19cafb4f/2010_FuckCancer_YasminHernandezArt.jpg Cover2 Fuck Cancer 2010, Yasmin Hernandez Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/be3000ae-8453-44bc-accd-b13d7f81c566/2009YasminHernandez_Basta_Bieke.jpg Cover2 Basta, 2009, Bieké Tierra de Valientes, Yasmin Hernandez Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/751fc089-734b-4d45-bb6d-0226f6ad4df8/2007detailYemayaEscuteYasminHernandezArt.jpg Cover2 Yemaya Installation 2007, Casa Museo Escuté, Carolina, PR, Yasmin Hernandez Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/ab8aaf64-1932-4e69-ac4c-06b8c9455d37/2006YasminHernandezArt_DylciaPagan.jpg Cover2 Querer Ser Libre (Dylcia Pagan), 2006, Yasmin Hernandez Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/e828d429-c22f-4316-b267-a1f50fbfb2c0/DylciaPagan_EddiePalmieri_YasminHernandezIvan.jpg Cover2 Dylcia Pagán, Eddie Palmieri, Yasmin and Ivan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/d8fecf62-d05d-4df6-a5a7-a7f102f984ef/YasminHernandez_soulrebels_Photo_JohnJames200505.jpg Cover2 Yasmin with her Soul Rebels Fela Kuti and Bob Marley portraits at El Museo del Barrio 2005 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/adcfdc75-f374-4c53-962d-372e566288b1/ThePonceMassacre_YasminHernandezArt_RematriatingBoriken.jpg Cover2 The Ponce Massacre, 1997, Yasmin Hernandez Art. https://yasminhernandez.art/about daily 0.75 2025-08-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/acb37a75-5649-4fce-942c-9a118fa8160c/HernandezYasmin_Headshot.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/749cbb48-2724-45b5-a030-982a8b723e04/01Yasmin.Hernandez.CucubaNacion.2022.jpg About Yasmin at CucubaNación 2023, with some of her works in tribute to the bioluminescent dinoflagellates of Vieques. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/514fcec3-21bf-48d6-b0ed-28afa0f1cc58/IMG_20220607_143032_417.jpg About Yasmin with beloved friend and mentor Dylcia Pagán and her portrait, in Dylcia's Loíza home, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/2ce06bba-3050-46ba-aed0-ede4bc8dae43/02YasminHernandezArtStudio2020.jpg About Yasmin at her old studio in Moca in 2020 and with her Julia de Burgos portrait on a Jersey designed for the Women's Empowerment Draft by the Art Force 5 program at Alfred University, Alfred, NY. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/bb777161-fd7d-49f1-afb8-acf9d97ab2b4/07.2018YasminHernandezArt_withLoveBomb.jpg About Yasmin with "Love Bomb" her 2018 self-portrait as little girl from her firefly-inspired CucubaNación series. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/74c8c582-5502-4ad0-b41f-491cc2fdc079/06YasminHernandez.LoveLessons.Palestine.detail.jpg About Yasmin with a detail from "Love Lessons", 2018, artwork commissioned by The People's Forum, NYC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/1b8a123a-0018-49e7-9153-602920866106/03.Cucubanacionmuralfam_YasminHernandezArt.jpg About Yasmin with her children in 2018 after completing the CucubaNación mural on la Calle San Vicente in Mayaguez. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/c6d24780-7a5f-4bfc-a8da-9db5f7bf268a/04.YasminHernandezArt.2018.CucubaNacionMural.jpg About Yasmin painting the CucubaNación mural in Mayaguez, 2018. Image by 474 St Photography. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/240997ce-1786-4e08-9044-ce1b2806699e/YasminHernandezArtDeDebtDecolonizeWhitneyMuseum.jpg About Yasmin with her painting "De-debt/ Decolonize". Occupy Museum's Debt Fair installation at the 2017 Whitney Biennial. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/030bc5c6-a100-4a33-8ea0-62f3af4e65f1/05.Sobresalientes.YasminHernandezArt.jpg About "Bieké Sobresaliente". Galería Betances, Mayaguez 2016. Installation recently acquired by the Art Museum, College of Saint Joseph, West Hartford, CT. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/780489fe-7b7e-4d2f-a98e-96f04f39780e/FB_IMG_1517312950349+%281%29.jpg About With María Consuelo, Julia de Burgos' niece and Yasmin's 2006 portrait at a Julia de Burgos exhibition. Archivo General de Puerto Rico, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/6b883371-d6a6-44d4-aefe-cbb659ee8f83/08.YasminHernandezArt.SoldaderasPrint.jpg About Yasmin customizing a print of her "Soldaderas" mural in her Moca studio. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/1a512a7b-fb2c-45fd-96f2-b85065d4e800/09.SoldaderasYHernandezArt.JSoriano.jpg About "Soldaderas" mural tribute to Frida Kahlo and Julia de Burgos. Photo: Javier Soriano. July 6, 2011, unveiling, anniversary of Frida's birthday and Julia's transition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/f31afdc9-4b7c-4ca2-861d-8703297d3867/10.YasminHernandezArt_Dylcia_EddiePalmieri.jpg About With mentor, Puerto Rican Freedom Fighter Dylcia Pagán, legendary musician, composer Eddie Palmieri and husband Ivan. Soul Rebels installation unveiling. El Museo del Barrio in 2005. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/a8f5d063-4ae4-4d05-bee9-e879d610199c/11.YasminHernandezart.soulrebels.Photo.JohnJames.05.jpg About Yasmin with her Fela Kuti and Bob Marley portraits at El Museo del Barrio in 2005. Photo: John James. https://yasminhernandez.art/cucubanacion-eng daily 0.75 2025-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/5ade0f55-c22f-437f-8d21-aeb9eb9b0ff9/CucubaNacionLOGOwatermarkWithURL.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/1731176940975-JQ89DO3FH123VAZCAW6D/CucubaNacion.StoreFront.Night.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1618497259178-6XJGK9GR6YAVBQL5L519/20140301_Trade-151_012-2.jpg CucubaNación-English https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1607694583486-2PQT0LQ193RL7MCB6DX4/20140228_Trade+151_0046.jpg CucubaNación-English https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/eb2db268-4003-418f-b380-1ac5c5f15561/FinalLogoCucubaNacion.jpg CucubaNación-English https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/eb4cedb5-1735-491b-995c-dc351f33a567/CucubaNacion.StoreFront.Night.jpg CucubaNación-English CucubaNación at night. 4 Calle San Vicente, Mayaguez Pueblo, PR https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/a17f23d8-a1e1-4829-8402-b312a2ed90b2/CucubaNacion2018_YasminHernandezandSons.jpg CucubaNación-English Yasmin Hernandez and her children after completing the CucubaNación Mural, 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/c43f42e7-95ad-4e2c-a477-a3d99adb88bd/20221117_133602.jpg CucubaNación-English CucubaNación by day next to our neighbors, the urban clothing shop D'Lab on la Calle San Vicente, Mayaguez, Pueblo, PR. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/320f5e69-1fe2-4b04-af16-93f8207140d9/CucubaNacion_2019_YasminHernandezArt_BioluminescentBrother.jpg CucubaNación-English "Bioluminescent Brother" 2019, CucubaNación, Yasmin Hernandez. Portrait of the artist's brother as underwater, celestial b-boy with Striped Bass. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/9ca8f7f5-c443-4db4-8e91-3d02c67810b2/YasminHernandez_ImagebyYerayGomez474stphotography.jpg CucubaNación-English Yasmin painting the CucubaNación mural in 2018. Photo by Yeray Gomez @474.st photography. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/7a8150d6-8117-47d6-82c3-af46699e6d11/CucubaNacion2020_CucubanoMayor_YasminHernandezArt_wm.jpg CucubaNación-English "El Cucubano Mayor" 2020, Yasmin Hernandez. CucubaNación. Portrait of Puerto Rican Freedom Fighter Rafael Cancel Miranda, inspired by the colors and glow of the cucubano. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/4a1d3ad6-3cf3-4c66-a8a7-c138452bcc45/YasminHernandezArt_PhotobyThayMoya.jpg CucubaNación-English Yasmin Hernandez painting the CucubaNación mural in 2018. Photo: Thay Moya. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/57546083-faf3-499f-806f-64f17d5745e3/CucubaNacion_NinxsEscolares2018_YasminHernandezArt.jpg CucubaNación-English "Niñxs Escolares" 2018. Yasmin Hernandez. CucubaNación. Created after May Day protests where Riot Squads tear-gassed crowds in San Juan including families and children protesting massive school closures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/9d56fbe8-a716-429b-8daa-74732b39168d/CucubanacionMural_YasminHernandezArt.jpg CucubaNación-English CucubaNación Mural, Yasmin Hernandez Art, 2018, directly across from our door. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/b481afd8-40e7-4655-8bad-3487fc1e419c/CucubaNacionNinaDroz_YasminHernandezArt_2019.jpg CucubaNación-English "Amante de la Libertad" 2019, Yasmin Hernandez. CucubaNación. Portrait of former political prisoner Nina Droz Franco in colors inspired by fireflies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/96dd6e03-4404-4ab3-9d7c-0cccb80999e5/CucubaNacionManifestoYasminHernandezArt.jpg CucubaNación-English Detail, CucubaNación Mural, Yasmin Hernandez Art 2018: Seamos cucubanos/ Emitiendo nuestra luz/ Iluminados de amor/ Repelando enemigos (We shall be cucubanos/ Emitting our light/ Illuminated by love/ Repelling enemies) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/044119fe-ec74-4eff-8b59-476b83560287/CucubaNacionHermandad_Bioluminiscente2018_YasminHernandezArt.jpg CucubaNación-English "Hermandad Bioluminiscente" 2018, Yasmin Hernandez. CucubaNación series. Portrait of sisters Consuelo y Julia de Burgos with excerpts of Julia's poetry. "Mirarte es verme entera de luz, rodando en un azul." (Looking at you is seeing myself whole in light, rolling in blue." These words are also painted in calligraphy around the bathroom mirror in CucubaNación as a self-love practice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/949c8ede-c1ca-4106-a386-29eb7d586453/entrada.cucubanacion.jpg CucubaNación-English View of the CucubaNación mural from our door. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/39c532ad-83a2-40e8-ad30-b9360e168f04/CucubaNacion_YasminHernandezArt_LolitaLuna_2019.jpg CucubaNación-English "Ya yo vi la luna" 2019, Acrylic on canvas, 14 x 18”. Yasmin Hernandez. Painted on March 1st, 2018, when the full moon coincided with the anniversary of the mission Lolita Lebron led in Washington that date in 1954 to protest US colonialism in Puerto Rico. Lolita served 25 years is US federal prisons as a result. It includes a quote from Lolita's interview with Dr. Consuelo Martinez-Reyes. “Ya yo vi la luna: la última entrevista a Lolita Lebrón." Contemplating her transition at over 90 years old she said “I will be able to better appreciate the air, the stars, the sun. I have already seen the moon.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/828f33fc-5d4e-4981-b15e-e01f42b07460/Bugs.jpg CucubaNación-English Our inspiration: bioluminescence. Left: fireflies, right: cucubano. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/8fa4a4fe-9ffa-40d4-9003-5a9d7f691b12/CucubaNacion_ShineYourLight_Exonerated5_YasminHernandezArt_2019.jpg CucubaNación-English Shine Your Light, 2019. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48 in. Portrait juxtaposing the innocent boys of the Central Park Five with their images as free men: the Exonerated Five. I was 14 in 1989, same age as several of the boys at the time of their arrest, and was transformed deeply after watching Duvernay’s When They See Us. They are painted shining their light, inspired by fireflies (red heads, black wings with yellow outlines and green glow: colors of black liberation.) This painting is a call to justice and to lift the divine masculine. Included is a lyric excerpt from Yasiin Bey’s "Umi Says"- “Shine your light for the world to see…. I want black people to be free…. That’s all that matters to me.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/a279d579-33f6-483f-88c1-73a69e3b05ea/Yasmin.cucubanacion.oct22.jpg CucubaNación-English Yasmin Hernandez installing artwork prior to CucubaNación's November 11, 2022 opening. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/86d9dbf9-f8f3-4b53-a4b5-a37c2779383e/CucubaNacion_YasminHernandezArt_ShineYourLight_Exonerated5_Detail_2019.jpg CucubaNación-English Painting detail, "Shine Your Light" 2019. Yasmin Hernandez. Wrongfully arrested boys Korey Wise, Raymond Santana and Antron McCray of the so-called Central Park Five are now The Exonerated Five. Painted in the colors of fireflies, colors of black liberation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/6a4d86bc-516e-457e-a607-12e0980b5617/wm.CucubaNacion.Night1.jpg CucubaNación-English November 2022 view of CucubaNación's front space and bioluminescence-inspired artwork by Yasmin Hernandez Art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/b391d201-d544-4ed7-b521-8564b00d5595/CucubaNacion_YasminHernandezArt_HuerteritasGandules_detail_2018.jpg CucubaNación-English detail, Las Maravillosas Huerteritas, 2018, Yasmin Hernandez, CucubaNación. Girl holding gandules, painted in the colors of fireflies, colors of black liberation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/2857bc26-f24e-43aa-a729-51ce98fb0c48/wm.CucubaNacion.Fireflywall.Night.jpg CucubaNación-English November 2022 view of CucubaNación's front space and bioluminescence-inspired artwork by Yasmin Hernandez Art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/181d2b30-8b95-4503-a0df-e70c024e2cfc/CucubaNacion_YasminHernandezArt_FlyPapi2019.jpg CucubaNación-English "Fly Papi" 2019 Yasmin Hernandez Art. Acrylic on black fabric, 38x30in. Portrait of my father in the 1980s, painted in the colors of fireflies, colors of black liberation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/6ed51de7-54d1-4d6b-8996-691da99cd396/wm.Bluewalls.CucubaNacion.Dia.jpg CucubaNación-English November 2022 view of CucubaNación's front space and bioluminescence-inspired artwork by Yasmin Hernandez Art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/890246da-528e-4192-83f9-97e1c5e12ad9/CucubaNacion_2024_Javier.DonRafa.YasminHernandezArt.jpg CucubaNación-English Javier in CucubaNación alongside his portrait of the Portraits from the Trench Series and El Cucubano Mayor, portrait of Rafael Cancel Miranda, artwork by Yasmin Hernandez. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/cfc010b6-8d88-45c4-831e-a536c43cefdf/20221117_123852.jpg CucubaNación-English Yasmin Hernandez with samples of her bioluminescent dinoflagellate-inspired works at CucubaNación, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/d63d9084-6699-4db4-84ae-021a069f270c/CucubaNacion.2023_Rematriation1YasminHernandezArt.jpg CucubaNación-English Rematriating Borikén paintings by Yasmin Hernandez Art at CucubaNación 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/312ef8ff-ae25-4b63-acdf-bd91d24dc821/RosieDiaz.MassagingJamie.jpg CucubaNación-English Rosie offering massages at CucubaNación's first Healing Space, October 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/ef5779c5-525d-4d1c-b151-67216bc8aea9/CucubaNacion_LilyBlackLight2_YasminHernandezArt.jpg CucubaNación-English Lights in Yasmin Hernandez' studio corner working on Portraits from the Trench, Rematriating Borikén project at CucubaNación, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/f90ca90c-5ee1-4d1f-856c-aab6de55c544/Opening.CucubaNacion.jpg CucubaNación-English Tony, and Ivan playing bomba with Jamie and Angel of Estudio 353 at CucubaNación's opening, November 11, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/13a8792c-4cea-4e96-8bc4-1053dbbcc114/CucubaNacion2024_Studio_LilyBlackLight_YasminHernandezArt.jpg CucubaNación-English Portrait of Lily in process with black light, Portraits from the Trench-Rematriating Borikén, Yasmin Hernandez Art at CucubaNación 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/26171b2d-e066-4505-8f5b-6283dff3fc9e/Estudio353.Parranda.CucubaNacion.jpg CucubaNación-English Estudio 353 surprises us with a Christmas asalto in December of 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/b15eab7d-048d-4df6-bdac-25be9f7c04ca/CucubaNacion2024_CornerView_YasminHernandezArt.jpg CucubaNación-English Corner of CucubaNación with Portraits from the Trench exhibit. Portraits of Yasmin Hernandez' sons and paintings Pulse and I Saw Alexa... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/e47d2ba8-f305-4711-b4de-04c25eb98bea/Acupuntura.CucubaNacion.jpg CucubaNación-English Adela offering ear acupuncture and massages during a February 2023 Healing Space at CucubaNación. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/7bf9efb9-c5b8-4deb-ab4f-a67fe6a33b57/CucubaNacion_2024_Yari_RematriatingBoriken_YasminHernandezArt.jpg CucubaNación-English Yarí Taína and her portrait from the Rematriating Borikén Project by Yasmin Hernández https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/4758ec87-54b8-4727-973d-cb3558b39391/VigiliaDonRafa.CucubaNacion.jpg CucubaNación-English Jamie and Angel of Estudio 353 singing an Indigenous-inspired Borinqueña Revolucionaria with maracas, in memory of Rafael Cancel Miranda on the anniversary of his transition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/dd7c41b0-2bfe-4196-9541-04ebaa1efe37/Marisol2024_TrenchPortraits_RemBori_YasminHernandezArt.jpg CucubaNación-English Portrait of Marisol, and Susimar in the background. Portraits from the Trench by Yasmin Hernandez at CucubaNación 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/1a8db488-cd1f-4828-a71c-0640fff9e72d/20240605_151619.jpg CucubaNación-English View of Portraits from the Trench at CucubaNación, Yasmin Hernandez' portrait series for the Rematriating Borikén Project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/0a3a3bad-28c9-42e0-b3fd-ee7bfaa07267/CuubaNacion_2024_Marisol_RematriatingBoriken_YasminHernandezArt.jpg CucubaNación-English Marisol and her portrait. Portraits from the Trench by Yasmin Hernandez. CucubaNación 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/61983746-d3ad-4560-a5c9-f04ae3612986/20240601_190723.jpg CucubaNación-English Yasmin sitting with Rosie and Lily, both featured in Portraits from the Trench at CucubaNación. The portrait series is part of the Rematriating Borikén Project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/27d6bae5-c7e5-48b1-97c9-426c73b2eed7/CucubaNacion_2024_Susimar_RematriatingBoriken_YasminHernandezArt.jpg CucubaNación-English Susimar and her portrait. Portraits from the Trench by Yasmin Hernandez. CucubaNación 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/6a5d24db-cf65-4df7-9876-458c282173ad/20240606_205419.jpg CucubaNación-English Yasmin Hernandez with genealogist and artist Melanie Maldonado and artist Diogenes Ballester at the Gallery Talk for Portraits from the Trench at CucubaNación, June 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/4c5c8ee2-be0d-43f8-bd2b-205dffebd91b/20240718_192123.jpg CucubaNación-English Rosie and Ketsia during the first Trinchera de Ideas, Rematriation Conversation Series at CucubaNación, July 2024. https://yasminhernandez.art/cucubanacion-manifesto daily 0.75 2025-07-30 https://yasminhernandez.art/manifiesto-cucubanacion daily 0.75 2025-02-26 https://yasminhernandez.art/cucubanacion daily 0.75 2025-07-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/5ade0f55-c22f-437f-8d21-aeb9eb9b0ff9/CucubaNacionLOGOwatermarkWithURL.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/1731176940975-JQ89DO3FH123VAZCAW6D/CucubaNacion.StoreFront.Night.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/eb2db268-4003-418f-b380-1ac5c5f15561/FinalLogoCucubaNacion.jpg CucubaNación https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1618497259178-6XJGK9GR6YAVBQL5L519/20140301_Trade-151_012-2.jpg CucubaNación https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1607694583486-2PQT0LQ193RL7MCB6DX4/20140228_Trade+151_0046.jpg CucubaNación https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/eb4cedb5-1735-491b-995c-dc351f33a567/CucubaNacion.StoreFront.Night.jpg CucubaNación CucubaNación de noche. 4 Calle San Vicente, Mayaguez Pueblo, PR https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/a17f23d8-a1e1-4829-8402-b312a2ed90b2/CucubaNacion2018_YasminHernandezandSons.jpg CucubaNación Yasmín Hernández y sus hijos después de completar el mural CucubaNación, Mayaguez, 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/c43f42e7-95ad-4e2c-a477-a3d99adb88bd/20221117_133602.jpg CucubaNación CucubaNación de día, junto a los vecinos, la tienda urbana D'Lab en la Calle San Vicente, Mayaguez, Pueblo, PR. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/320f5e69-1fe2-4b04-af16-93f8207140d9/CucubaNacion_2019_YasminHernandezArt_BioluminescentBrother.jpg CucubaNación "Hermano Bioluminiscente" 2019, serie CucubaNación por Yasmín Hernández. Retrato de su hermano como "b-boy" celestial bioluminiscente bajo el agua. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/9ca8f7f5-c443-4db4-8e91-3d02c67810b2/YasminHernandez_ImagebyYerayGomez474stphotography.jpg CucubaNación Yasmin pintando el mural CucubaNación mural, 2018. Foto: Yeray Gomez @474.st photography. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/7a8150d6-8117-47d6-82c3-af46699e6d11/CucubaNacion2020_CucubanoMayor_YasminHernandezArt_wm.jpg CucubaNación "El Cucubano Mayor" 2020. Yasmín Hernández. CucubaNación. Retrato del patriota Boricua Rafael Cancel Miranda, inspirado en los colores del cucubano. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/4a1d3ad6-3cf3-4c66-a8a7-c138452bcc45/YasminHernandezArt_PhotobyThayMoya.jpg CucubaNación Yasmin Hernandez pintando el mural de CucubaNación, 2018. Foto: Thay Moya. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/57546083-faf3-499f-806f-64f17d5745e3/CucubaNacion_NinxsEscolares2018_YasminHernandezArt.jpg CucubaNación "Niñxs Escolares" 2018. Yasmín Hernández. Serie CucubaNación. Creado después de las protestas el primero de Mayo, cuando la fuerza de choque lanzó gases lacrimógenos en San Juan afectando a familias protestando el cierre de escuelas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/9d56fbe8-a716-429b-8daa-74732b39168d/CucubanacionMural_YasminHernandezArt.jpg CucubaNación CucubaNación, Mural, Yasmín Hernández Arte, 2018, a cruzar la calle, frente a nuestra puerta. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/b481afd8-40e7-4655-8bad-3487fc1e419c/CucubaNacionNinaDroz_YasminHernandezArt_2019.jpg CucubaNación "Amante de la Libertad" 2019. Yasmín Hernandez. CucubaNación. Retrato de la ex-prisionera política, Nina Droz Franco en colores inspirados en las luciérnagas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/96dd6e03-4404-4ab3-9d7c-0cccb80999e5/CucubaNacionManifestoYasminHernandezArt.jpg CucubaNación Detalle, CucubaNación Mural y manifiesto, Yasmín Hernández Arte 2018 We shall be cucubanos Emitting our light Illuminated by love Repelling enemies https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/044119fe-ec74-4eff-8b59-476b83560287/CucubaNacionHermandad_Bioluminiscente2018_YasminHernandezArt.jpg CucubaNación "Hermandad Bioluminiscente" 2018, Yasmín Hernández. CucubaNación. Retrato de Consuelo y Julia de Burgos. "Mirarte es verme entera de luz, rodando en un azul." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/949c8ede-c1ca-4106-a386-29eb7d586453/entrada.cucubanacion.jpg CucubaNación Vista del mural CucubaNación de nuestra puerta. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/39c532ad-83a2-40e8-ad30-b9360e168f04/CucubaNacion_YasminHernandezArt_LolitaLuna_2019.jpg CucubaNación "Ya yo vi la luna" 2019, Yasmín Hernández. Acrílico sobre lienzo, 14 x 18”. Retrato de Lolita Lebrón pintando con la luna llena del primero de marzo 2018, aniversario de su arresto en 1954. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/828f33fc-5d4e-4981-b15e-e01f42b07460/Bugs.jpg CucubaNación Las musa: la bioluminiscencia. Izq: luciernága. Der: cucubano. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/8fa4a4fe-9ffa-40d4-9003-5a9d7f691b12/CucubaNacion_ShineYourLight_Exonerated5_YasminHernandezArt_2019.jpg CucubaNación Shine Your Light, 2019 (Alumbra tu luz) Acrílico sobre lienzo, 36 x 48 in. Yasmín Hernández. Retrato de los nenes inocentes arrestados y llamados los "Central Park Five", junto a sus rostros hoy-día como los "Exonerated Five", ya por la libre. Inspirado por la serie de Duvernay "When They See Us." Pintados iluminando en colores inspirados en las luciérnagas, (cabecitas rojas, alas negras con lineas amarillas y su verde resplandor), igual que los colores de la liberación negra que nombró Marcus Garvey. Letras en caligrafía de Yasiin Bey, de la canción "Umi Says" (Shine your light for the world to see…. I want black people to be free, …. That’s all that matters to me.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/a279d579-33f6-483f-88c1-73a69e3b05ea/Yasmin.cucubanacion.oct22.jpg CucubaNación Yasmín Hernández instalando arte para la apertura de CucubaNación, 11, noviembre, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/86d9dbf9-f8f3-4b53-a4b5-a37c2779383e/CucubaNacion_YasminHernandezArt_ShineYourLight_Exonerated5_Detail_2019.jpg CucubaNación Detalle, "Shine Your Light" (Alumbra tu luz) 2019, por Yasmín Hernández. Rostros de Korey Wise, Raymond Santana y Antron McCray jóvenes injustamente arrestados y llamados los "Central Park Five." Hoy día están por la libre, los "Exonerated Five". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/6a4d86bc-516e-457e-a607-12e0980b5617/wm.CucubaNacion.Night1.jpg CucubaNación Noviembre 2022. Vista de CucubaNación y el arte de Yasmín Hernández inspirado en la bioluminiscencia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/b391d201-d544-4ed7-b521-8564b00d5595/CucubaNacion_YasminHernandezArt_HuerteritasGandules_detail_2018.jpg CucubaNación detalle, "Las Maravillosas Huerteritas", 2018, Yasmín Hernández. Niña con gandules pintando en colores inspirados en las luciérnagas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/2857bc26-f24e-43aa-a729-51ce98fb0c48/wm.CucubaNacion.Fireflywall.Night.jpg CucubaNación Noviembre 2022. Vista de CucubaNación y el arte de Yasmín Hernández inspirado en la bioluminiscencia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/181d2b30-8b95-4503-a0df-e70c024e2cfc/CucubaNacion_YasminHernandezArt_FlyPapi2019.jpg CucubaNación "Fly Papi" 2019 Yasmín Hernández. Acrílico sobre tela negra, 38x30in. Retrato de mi papá en colores inspirados en las luciérnagas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/6ed51de7-54d1-4d6b-8996-691da99cd396/wm.Bluewalls.CucubaNacion.Dia.jpg CucubaNación Noviembre 2022. Vista de CucubaNación y el arte de Yasmín Hernández inspirado en la bioluminiscencia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/890246da-528e-4192-83f9-97e1c5e12ad9/CucubaNacion_2024_Javier.DonRafa.YasminHernandezArt.jpg CucubaNación Javier en CucubaNación junto a su retrato por Yasmín Hernández y "El Cucubano Mayor" retrato de Rafael Cancel Miranda. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/cfc010b6-8d88-45c4-831e-a536c43cefdf/20221117_123852.jpg CucubaNación Yasmín Hernández con algunos de sus imagenes inspirados en la bioluminiscencia de los dinoflagelados. CucubaNación, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/d63d9084-6699-4db4-84ae-021a069f270c/CucubaNacion.2023_Rematriation1YasminHernandezArt.jpg CucubaNación Rematriating Borikén (Rematriando Borikén), pinturas por Yasmín Hernández en CucubaNación, Mayaguez 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/312ef8ff-ae25-4b63-acdf-bd91d24dc821/RosieDiaz.MassagingJamie.jpg CucubaNación Rosie ofreciendo masajes en el primer Espacio Sanativo de CucubaNación, October 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/ef5779c5-525d-4d1c-b151-67216bc8aea9/CucubaNacion_LilyBlackLight2_YasminHernandezArt.jpg CucubaNación Lucecitas en el taller de Yasmín Hernández trabajando en la serie Retratos desde la trinchera, CucubaNación, Mayaguez, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/f90ca90c-5ee1-4d1f-856c-aab6de55c544/Opening.CucubaNacion.jpg CucubaNación Tony e Ivan tocando bomba junto a Jamie y Angel del Estudio 353 en la apertura de CucubaNación. 11 de noviembre, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/13a8792c-4cea-4e96-8bc4-1053dbbcc114/CucubaNacion2024_Studio_LilyBlackLight_YasminHernandezArt.jpg CucubaNación Retrato de Lily en proceso con luz negra, Retratos desde la Trinchera, Rematriando Borikén, Yasmín Hernández, CucubaNación 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/26171b2d-e066-4505-8f5b-6283dff3fc9e/Estudio353.Parranda.CucubaNacion.jpg CucubaNación Estudio 353 nos sorprende con un asalto navideño, diciembre 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/b15eab7d-048d-4df6-bdac-25be9f7c04ca/CucubaNacion2024_CornerView_YasminHernandezArt.jpg CucubaNación Corner of CucubaNación with Portraits from the Trench Portraits of Yasmin Hernandez' sons and paintings Pulse and I Saw Alexa... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/e47d2ba8-f305-4711-b4de-04c25eb98bea/Acupuntura.CucubaNacion.jpg CucubaNación Adela ofrece acupuntura de oreja y masajes durante un Espacio Sanativo en CucubaNación, febrero 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/7bf9efb9-c5b8-4deb-ab4f-a67fe6a33b57/CucubaNacion_2024_Yari_RematriatingBoriken_YasminHernandezArt.jpg CucubaNación Yarí Taína and her portrait from the Rematriating Borikén Project by Yasmin Hernández https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/4758ec87-54b8-4727-973d-cb3558b39391/VigiliaDonRafa.CucubaNacion.jpg CucubaNación Jamie y Angel del Estudio 353 cantan una Borinqueña Revolucionaria con maracas, en memoria a Rafael Cancel Miranda. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/dd7c41b0-2bfe-4196-9541-04ebaa1efe37/Marisol2024_TrenchPortraits_RemBori_YasminHernandezArt.jpg CucubaNación Portrait of Marisol, and Susimar in the background. Portraits from the Trench by Yasmin Hernandez at CucubaNación 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/1a8db488-cd1f-4828-a71c-0640fff9e72d/20240605_151619.jpg CucubaNación Vista de Retratos desde la Trinchera en CucubaNación, serie por Yasmín Hernández para el proyecto Rematriating Borikén. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/0a3a3bad-28c9-42e0-b3fd-ee7bfaa07267/CuubaNacion_2024_Marisol_RematriatingBoriken_YasminHernandezArt.jpg CucubaNación Marisol and her portrait. Portraits from the Trench by Yasmin Hernandez. CucubaNación 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/61983746-d3ad-4560-a5c9-f04ae3612986/20240601_190723.jpg CucubaNación Yasmin sentada junto a Rosie y Lily, ambas pintadas como parte de la serie Retratos de la Trinchera en CucubaNación. Parte del proyecto Rematriating Borikén. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/27d6bae5-c7e5-48b1-97c9-426c73b2eed7/CucubaNacion_2024_Susimar_RematriatingBoriken_YasminHernandezArt.jpg CucubaNación Susimar and her portrait. Portraits from the Trench by Yasmin Hernandez. CucubaNación 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/6a5d24db-cf65-4df7-9876-458c282173ad/20240606_205419.jpg CucubaNación Yasmín Hernández con la genealogista y artista Melanie Maldonado y el artista Diogenes Ballester en CucubaNación, Junio 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/4c5c8ee2-be0d-43f8-bd2b-205dffebd91b/20240718_192123.jpg CucubaNación Rosie y Ketsia durante la primera Trinchera de Ideas, serie de conversaciones sobre la rematriación. 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En casa de Dylcia, Loíza, PR. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/2ce06bba-3050-46ba-aed0-ede4bc8dae43/02YasminHernandezArtStudio2020.jpg Quien Soy Yasmín en su estudio en Moca en 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/bb777161-fd7d-49f1-afb8-acf9d97ab2b4/07.2018YasminHernandezArt_withLoveBomb.jpg Quien Soy Yasmín con "Love Bomb" su auto-retrato de 2018 inspirado en las luciérnagas. Parte de su serie, CucubaNación. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/74c8c582-5502-4ad0-b41f-491cc2fdc079/06YasminHernandez.LoveLessons.Palestine.detail.jpg Quien Soy Yasmín con un detalle de su pintura "Love Lessons", 2018, comisionado por The People's Forum en Nueva York. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/1b8a123a-0018-49e7-9153-602920866106/03.Cucubanacionmuralfam_YasminHernandezArt.jpg Quien Soy Yasmín y sus hijos en 2018 con su mural CucubaNación en la Calle San Vicente en Mayaguez. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/c6d24780-7a5f-4bfc-a8da-9db5f7bf268a/04.YasminHernandezArt.2018.CucubaNacionMural.jpg Quien Soy Yasmín pintando el mural CucubaNación en Mayaguez, 2018. 474 St Photography. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/240997ce-1786-4e08-9044-ce1b2806699e/YasminHernandezArtDeDebtDecolonizeWhitneyMuseum.jpg Quien Soy Yasmín con su pintura, "De-debt/ Decolonize", parte de la instalación de Occupy Museum's "Debt Fair", Bienal del Museo Whitney, NY 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/030bc5c6-a100-4a33-8ea0-62f3af4e65f1/05.Sobresalientes.YasminHernandezArt.jpg Quien Soy "Bieké Sobresaliente". Galería Betances, Mayaguez 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/780489fe-7b7e-4d2f-a98e-96f04f39780e/FB_IMG_1517312950349+%281%29.jpg Quien Soy Yasmín con María Consuelo, sobrina de Julia de Burgos' y su retrato de Julia del 2006. Archivo General de Puerto Rico, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/6b883371-d6a6-44d4-aefe-cbb659ee8f83/08.YasminHernandezArt.SoldaderasPrint.jpg Quien Soy Yasmín en su estudio con una impresión de su mural "Soldaderas." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/1a512a7b-fb2c-45fd-96f2-b85065d4e800/09.SoldaderasYHernandezArt.JSoriano.jpg Quien Soy "Soldaderas", mural en tributo a Frida Kahlo y Julia de Burgos. Desvelación el 6 de julio 2011, natalicio de Frida y aniversario de la transición de Julia. Foto: Javier Soriano. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/f31afdc9-4b7c-4ca2-861d-8703297d3867/10.YasminHernandezArt_Dylcia_EddiePalmieri.jpg Quien Soy Yasmín con su marido, su mentora-la matriota, ex prisionera, ancestra Dylcia Pagán, y el maestro Eddie Palmieri. Desvelación de su serie "Soul Rebels", El Museo del Barrio, 2005. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/a8f5d063-4ae4-4d05-bee9-e879d610199c/11.YasminHernandezart.soulrebels.Photo.JohnJames.05.jpg Quien Soy Yasmín con sus retratos de Fela Kuti y Bob Marley de la serie "Soul Rebels", El Museo del Barrio, 2005. 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Yasmin Hernandez. Outlaw Clothesline. Portrait of my brother as a young boy in Puerto Rico alongside a biblical verse I found in a book of his. It describes the selfless life he led. (The Lord has anointed and qualified me to preach the Gospel of good tidings to the meek, the poor and afflicted. He has sent me to bind up and heal the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening of the prison and of the eyes to those who are bound. Rom 10:15. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/82b63251-0692-43f0-b08b-6f6dbd509205/2014YasminHernandez_OutlawJungledetail2.jpg Art - Outlaw Clothesline "...Like a Jungle Sometimes," 2014. Yasmin Hernandez. Outlaw Clothesline series. Ink and acrylic on cotton bandana, 20 x 20 inches. Lyrics from "The Message," Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five: "Don't push me cuz I'm close to the edge/ I'm trying not to lose my head/ It's like a jungle sometimes/ It makes me wonder/ How I keep from going under." Listen at: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/8d60cdb5-0ec7-43c0-9f7a-dddf4d4e6eaf/2014YasminHernandezArt_Outlaw_Jungledetail.jpg Art - Outlaw Clothesline ...Like a Jungle Sometimes, 2014. Yasmin Hernandez. Outlaw Clothesline series. Ink and acrylic on cotton bandana, 20 x 20 inches. Lyrics from "The Message," Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five: "Don't push me cuz I'm close to the edge/ I'm trying not to lose my head/ It's like a jungle sometimes/ It makes me wonder/ How I keep from going under." Listen at: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/e50f4fd7-481c-4fbf-8770-e2eb107e61d4/2014YasminHernandezArt_outlaw.jpg Art - Outlaw Clothesline "Outlaw." 2010. Yasmin Hernandez. Outlaw Clothesline series, Mixed media on watercolor paper, 18 x 12 inches. Image of my brother dressed as an outlaw, alongside an excerpt from my poem "Brooklyn Bred Boricua": Boricua outlaw brothers in leather and chains /Taken off their bodies and minds/ Turned into weapons of self defense/ Rockin' punk patches patria banderas and bandanas on their foreheads and back pockets." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/81b41b6f-a0aa-461c-b437-8eaba47377d5/2014_YasminHernandezArt_OutlawRemix.jpg Art - Outlaw Clothesline "Outlaw Remix" 2014. Yasmin Hernandez. Mixed media on cotton bandana 20 x 20 inches. Bandana remix of my 2010 Outlaw image on paper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/bdc5f83c-fa0d-4063-83f5-b5dde813f730/2014_YasminHernandezArt_streetlife_Outlaw.jpg Art - Outlaw Clothesline "Street Life," 2014. Yasmin Hernandez. Outlaw Clothesline series. Ink on cotton bandana, 20 x 20 inches. This bandana marks my brother's coming of age in the streets of Park Slope, Coney Island and East New York, Brooklyn. Lyrics by Joe Sample & Will Jennings for the song of the same title by The Crusaders and Randy Crawford. (Street Life/ You can run away from time/ Street Life/ for a nickel for a dime/ Street Life/ But you better not get old/ Street Life/ Or you're gonna feel the cold) Listen at: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/f4d6bb93-cfd9-4c8e-a9df-97532f4f629c/2014YasminHernandezArt_Outlaw_Renegade.jpg Art - Outlaw Clothesline "Renegade," 2014. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic and ink on cotton bandana, 20 x 20 inches. CJ/ CIC A renegade of this time and age. Excerpt "Renegades of Funk" by Afrika Bambaataa: Renegades are the people/ With their own philosophy/ They change the course of history/ Everyday people like you and me Listen at: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/15e0fcb6-1abd-46d1-8372-e87a7047f4de/2014_HearIt_Outlaw_YasminHernandez.jpg Art - Outlaw Clothesline "Hear it Calling Me," 2014. Yasmin Hernandez. Outlaw Clothesline Series, Mixed media on cotton bandana, 20 x 20 inches. This tribute to my brother marks the moment of his passing, recalling how I played the song "Babe I'm gonna leave you" by Led Zeppelin. With it, I realized that he was informing me of his impending departure and saying goodbye. He passed within a half hour. (Baby I'm gonna leave you...I ain't jokin' woman I've got to ramble...I can hear it calling me the way it used to do. I can hear it calling me back home.) Listen at: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/9b8c240c-bf9b-431a-81f1-2117edc0c223/2014_YasminHernandezArt_PlayatYourOwnRisk.jpg Art - Outlaw Clothesline "Play At Your Own Risk," 2014. Yasmin Hernandez. Outlaw clothesline series. Mixed media on cotton bandana. 20 x 20 inches. Tribute to my brother Joseph lost to cancer in 2010, featuring my poem "Forever big brother" and my self portrait with my brother. (I imagine you complete and present/ My forever big brother/ I cement in my head/ My superhero vision of you/ That I crafted as a little girl/ You stand eternal, invincible, strong in that vision/ As you once were/ As you are now As you will always be be) The title is borrowed from the song by Planet Patrol. Listen at: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/4e5f2726-bf73-4d89-8cac-243155577cb2/2014Outlaw_calligraphydetail_YasminHernandez.jpg Art - Outlaw Clothesline detail, "Play At Your Own Risk," 2014. Yasmin Hernandez. Outlaw clothesline series. Mixed media on cotton bandana. 20 x 20 inches. Tribute to my brother Joseph lost to cancer in 2010, featuring my poem "Forever big brother" and my self portrait with my brother. (I imagine you complete and present/ My forever big brother/ I cement in my head/ My superhero vision of you/ That I crafted as a little girl/ You stand eternal, invincible, strong in that vision/ As you once were/ As you are now As you will always be be) Title is borrowed from the song by Planet Patrol. Listen at: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/51bf112f-fa55-4958-9567-553b2cf00a5c/2014_IndestructibleRemixOutlawYasminHernandez.jpg Art - Outlaw Clothesline "Indestructible Remix," 2014. Yasmin Hernandez. Outlaw Clothesline series. Mixed media on cotton bandana, 20 x 20 inches. My brother took this photo of his own and my son's hand when Gabriel was just 6 months old. My brother passed 6 months later, just after Gabriel's 1st birthday. I created this piece with the lyrics of Ray Barreto's "Indestructible" which sings that when beloved blood is lost, in new blood lies Indestructible strength. "Cuando en la vida se sufre una herida/ Porque se pierde sangre querida/ en ese momento piensa que todo es posible/ que con la sangre nueva esta la fuerza indestructible." Listen at: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/c5c170af-4c13-4ccf-81ae-8269458fafb3/fuckcancer.jpg Art - Outlaw Clothesline "Fuck Cancer," 2010. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on cotton bandana 20 x 20 inches. This was the first bandana that I painted on directly & that inspired the Outlaw Clothesline series. It was an emotional process to paint my brother's portrait, bringing his image back to life after his passing. "Fuck Cancer" was his mantra that he would turn into graffiti signs for his room at the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan. I copied the text from one of those signs onto this image. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/174f41f2-c060-42cf-b21b-e1209962cd08/sonnydeLightYasminHernandez.jpg Art - Outlaw Clothesline Yasmin Hernandez with her Outlaw Clothesline series dedicated to the memory of her brother Joseph. https://yasminhernandez.art/art/bieke monthly 0.5 2025-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/599202fb-ae98-4ddc-b120-b255b9bbabb1/04_YasminHernandezSobresalientes.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes “Bieké Sobresaliente,” 2016. Galería Betances, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. Four acrylic paintings on camouflage fabric and my boys' camouflage pants (size 3T and 4T) barbed wire, found wood. Approx 3' x 5'. Sobresalientes (meaning outstanding) are images of Vieques youth and its environment, rising from the camouflage, leaving a military history behind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/3ba95bd8-8f25-4afb-b492-d8d40ccc29fa/2009angel.cemi.yasmin.hernandez.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes “Ángel Cemí” 2009. Bieké-Cemí series, Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on black fabric, 60 x 30". Ángel Rodríguez Cristobal was a socialist activist from Ciales Puerto Rico. Involved in the struggle for peace & justice in Vieques, he was arrested in 1979 as part of the Vieques 21. He was sent to prison in Tallahassee, Florida where he turned up dead in his prison cell on Veteran's Day. It was said that he committed suicide, yet an autopsy revealed injuries on his back, indicating he had been attacked. Los Macheteros avenged his death, attacking a US Navy bus in Sabana Seca, PR. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/c8b70f66-f99d-44f2-9c34-7aefe89bf638/2009YasminHernandezArt_valiente.mimita.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes “Valiente Mimita”, 2009. Bieké-Valiente series. Acrylic, burlap, collage on camouflage, 20" x 30". Emma "Mimita" Rosado, whose interview left me mesmerized, spoke of the moment in which she saw Playa Grande, the area of Vieques that her family is from. She was seeing this land from the military raft that carried her along with other activists that had been arrested. She cried, recognizing that her family's homeland was seized by the Navy & though she was seeing it again, it was from afar, on a raft, under military police custody. During a time in which she lived in the states, and would be called “Puerto Rican” she would correct people, “Viequense first, then Puerto Rico.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/5ff7640d-525b-4271-8633-2ad582e58821/2016_YasminHernandezEsperanza.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes “Esperanza” 2016. Detail of the Bieké Sobresaliente installation. Acrylic paint on my son's camouflage pants (size 3T). This image is of a little girl I once saw playing in Esperanza beach when I was six months pregnant with my first son and still researching for my Vieques project in 2008. Sobresalientes (meaning outstanding) are images of Vieques youth and its environment, rising from the camouflage, leaving a military history behind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/a02b2c9a-eda1-42d8-b3a0-27dda8af0249/2009david.sanes.cemi.yasmin.hernandez.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes “David Cemí” 2009. Bieké-Cemí series, Yasmín Hernández. Acrylic on black fabric, 60 x 30”. David Sanes Rodríguez, from a large, well-known family in Vieques, worked as a civilian guard near Observation Point 1 in the US Navy bombing range on Vieques’ east end. On April 19th, 1999 he had the day off from work, but was called by a co-worker asking if he could please cover his shift. He agreed to do so, but when it was time to leave to work, David seemed reluctant. During the bombing maneuvers that day, a pilot missed his target by several miles. Two 500-pound bombs fell on the OP, wounding several employees and killing David Sanes Rodríguez. The Sanes tragedy opened up a new era in the Vieques struggle in which the protestors transcended party lines and political persuasions, uniting in the struggle to end the military maneuvers in Vieques, which they succeeded in ending on May 1st, 2003. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/cbed80d1-4c64-40e6-8cf5-2c2c6dfe65e6/2009YasminHernandezArt_valiete.mirta.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes “Valiente Mirta”, 2009. Bieké-Valiente series. Acrylic, burlap, collage on camouflage, 20" x 30". "Fuimos caminando hasta llegar allá a la zona de tiro. Nos acostamos en la orilla de la playa. Pues ahí, yo no sé como fue porque yo me acosté con mi mente en blanco. Ahí tuve un sueño con mi hermano, con David. David me decía: 'No te preocupe hermana que tu no estas sola. Mami y yo te estamos acompañando a ti y a tu grupo.' El que me arrestó a mi me preguntó quien yo era y yo le dije: '¡Yo soy la hermana del difunto David Sanes el que ustedes mataron con la bomba!” Mirta Sanes reveals her experience when she entered the bombing range in protest. While there she fell asleep & dreamt with her brother David, killed by 2 US Navy bombs in 1999. He told her not to worry, she wasn't alone. He and their mother were accompanying her and her group of women protestors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/de6d1a8e-d057-4dc5-9123-b58e9a5977cb/2014_Hernandez_Yasmin_sobresalientes.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes (L) “Caballos Monte Carmelo,” (R) “Caballos Sombé.” 2016 Bieké Sobresaliente series. Acrylic on camouflage fabric. Each of these images shows Vieques horses emerging from the camouflage. Vieques' environment stands out (sobresale), while its militarized past recedes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/093f9325-c19d-4a51-9bbd-226e8eec39a7/epifania.cemi.rr.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes “Epifania Cemí” 2009. Bieké-Cemí series, Yasmín Hernández. Acrylic on black fabric, 30" x 20". "Cuando David cumplió los dos años, ahi falleció mi mamá porque ella nunca superó la muerte de mi hermano." (4/19/1999-4/19/2001) -Magdalena Sanes. (On David's two-year anniversary my mother died because she was never able to overcome the death of my brother.) While many know the name of David Sanes Rodríguez, few know that his mother Epifania passed away on the second anniversary of her son being killed by the bombing range. This work includes the work of Magdalena, sister and daughter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/99f77340-449f-40b8-8ae4-af268e6bd4ed/2009YasminHernandezArt_valiente.jose.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes “Valiente Jose”, 2009. Bieké-Valiente series. Acrylic, burlap, collage on camouflage, 20" x 30". “Por la tarde sentí un presentimiento en mi. Pues yo sentí como que me rozaron por aquí al lao. Yo me asusté, me sacudí. Pues no le hice caso y volvió y me paso lo mismo. Como a los tres minutos llama mi prima y me pregunta por mi mai. Y yo le digo, ¿pues que esta pasando? Porque ella esta to’ nerviosa? 'Pues te voy a decir algo pero tu tiene que cogerlo con calma.' Cuando me dijo de tío yo me descontrolé por completo. Mirta’s son, José Montañez Sanes, details the moment he received a call from his cousin informing him of the death of his Uncle David Sanes, killed in the bombing range by US Navy bombs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/d83cc932-5e4e-4944-b430-1e6a705f91e8/2009carmelo.cemi.yasmin.hernandez.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes "Carmelo Cemí" 2009, Bieké-Cemí series, Yasmín Hernández. Acrylic on black fabric, 20" x 30". "Carmelo puede ser cualquier de nosotros. Todo Puerto Rico es un Monte Carmelo, Tierra del valiente.... Tenemos aquí evidencia de que nadie, ningún país, ninguna fuerza puede ser omnipotente. ¡Dile a mi pueblo que marche!"-Carmelo Felix Matta. Also included on the painting is a quote from his widow María: “Mi negrito levantó las manos pa'l cielo y se le veían las lagrimas y llorando decía, 'Gracias Papa Dios. ¡Ahora me puedo ir tranquilo porque vi tu justicia!' Se fue la marina en el 2003. El murió en el 2005." -María Felix Matta, viuda de Carmelo. Carmelo and María fell in love as two displaced Viequenses living in Saint Croix and decided to return to build their home and start a family. Needing land to do so, Carmelo took some back from the US Navy. He repeated this process for other families, clearing lands taken by the US military, so families could use them. One such community (there are three) was named after him: Monte Carmelo. Today these communities that Carmelo founded, by reclaiming lands rightfully for Viequenses, are being coveted by the US again via colonial settlers and gentrification. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/40595da8-7baa-4323-8e3d-2cf6fb840244/2009YasminHernandezArt_valiente.natra.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes “Valiente Natra,” 2009. Bieké-Valiente series. Acrylic, burlap, collage on camouflage, 20" x 30". “El pueblo tenia dos opciones, coger miedo, callarse o salir de frente.” (The people had two options, to fear/ be silent or to charge forward.) In his featured interview excerpt, Vieques lyricist/ rapper MC Natra describes having been attacked by US soldiers. He credits that incident for a rebirth, a feeling of freedom that has filled him ever since. From that day forward he is committed to fearlessly telling Vieques' truth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/2e565c60-03b9-4b8f-98f5-8c604ea634ef/gallery.view.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes “Contaminados,” 2009, Bieké series. Fuchsia Papelillo (Trinitaria) flower petals in 10 of my brother's Chemotherapy drug transport bags, 7' x 4'. Museo Fuerte Conde de Mirasol, Vieques, Puerto Rico. This is a commentary on the contamination & cancer rates resulting from 60+ years of the US Navy's bomb practices on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques. My brother in NYC, who was so supportive of my work and this project, collected these bags in anticipation of this installation. He underwent an auto stem cell transplant during the exhibit's run but unfortunately passed two weeks after the exhibit closed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/011b3388-4a2d-4aaa-9bf8-0af916390447/12_YasminHernandezBasta.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes “Basta,” 2009. Installation: Acrylic on US military tent, Approx 10' x 8'. Chain link fencing, wire cutters and military debris. This 2009 edition of my Basta installation (originally created at the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning in NY) was part of the Bieké exhibit in Vieques. The torn fences represent the people of Vieques when they cut down fences demarcating civilian properties from those taken by the US military. The military items were collected by Vieques activist Robert Rabin in the former bombing range. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/1bed027b-0ed4-440f-94ca-251c07a15d3b/2009.milivy.cemi.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes “Milivy Cemí” 2009. Bieké-Cemí series. Yasmín Hernández. Acrylic on black fabric, 30” x 20”. Milivy Adams Calderón fought the bravest battle against cancer, becoming a symbol for the Vieques struggle for peace & justice. With disproportionate cancer rates related to military weapons contamination, Milivy passed from leukemia on November 17th, 2002. She was just five years old. I interviewed her mother for this project on her anniversary, November 17, 2008, while I was five months pregnant with my first son. During the interview she shared a gut-wrenching observation her mother had which proved to be a prophecy. While admiring baby Milivy one day, her grandmother said to her own daughter, “I’m afraid that you will love her too much. This little girl is way too beautiful to inhabit this earth. This is an angel.” I included those words on the painting. Inspired by Vieques’ famed bioluminescent bay, I painted her as the radiant spirit that she is. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/5cb7df48-7a70-4e7d-918d-9ea9f8a70ee7/2009YasminHernandezArt_ValienteLadyM.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes “Valiente Lady M”, 2009. Bieké-Valiente series. Acrylic, burlap, collage on camouflage, 20" x 30". Lady M, a singer and rapper in her own right together with her husband MC Natra, describes the moment in which she learned that her he had been attacked by soldiers and the rage that came over her, learning of the consequences her husband suffered for defending their land. She states: “The moment arrives in which you decide to fight back no matter the consequences.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/e272e0fe-637d-4766-95c6-87709f23676b/alter.alters.thumb.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes Military debris detail, basta. “Basta,” 2009. Installation: Acrylic on US military tent, Approx 10' x 8'. Chain link fencing, wire cutters and military debris. This 2009 edition of my Basta installation (originally created at the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning in NY) was part of the Bieké exhibit in Vieques. The torn fences represent the people of Vieques when they cut down fences demarcating civilian properties from those taken by the US military. The military items were collected by Vieques activist Robert Rabin in the former bombing range. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/aa560ed9-4808-4a9e-9753-e0f4554e0016/Familia.AngelRodriguez.Cristobal.YasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes Efrain y Jossie, siblings of Ángel Rodríguez Cristobal, the Ciales-born Vieques activist found murdered in his prison cell on Veterans Day, 1979. This photo was taken on the 30th anniversary of his death at my Bieké exhibition at El Museo Fuerte Conde de Mirasol in Vieques in 2009. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/ce18d629-6e31-4881-ae8a-d224cc4eb688/yasminhernandezart.valiente.milloG.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes “Valiente: Millo,” Bieké-Valiente series. Mixed media on camouflage, 20" x 30". Another powerful interview. In his 50s at the time, Millo had been diagnosed with early Alzheimer's. Still, he delivered one of the longest, fiercest interviews. A good part of it was spent discussing his disdain for the US involvement in Vietnam. He shared that he had renounced his Veteran's status because of it, even if it made him ineligible for health benefits he needed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/79497605-398c-411a-b3c6-48c07663963c/2009YasminHernandezArt_Bieke.magdalena.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes Magdalena Sanes stands alongside my portraits of her brother David Sanes Rodríguez and their mother Epifania. Both died on April 19th, (1999 and 2001 respectively.) Bieké: Tierra de Valientes. El Museo Fuerte Conde de Mirasol, Vieques, PR, October 2009. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/fc38f4a5-585c-4f09-b463-16b1387d790b/2009YasminHernandezArt_valiente.gladys.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes “Valiente Gladys”, 2009. Bieké-Valiente series. Acrylic, burlap, collage on camouflage, 20" x 30". Gladys is Portuguese but has spent most of her life in Vieques. Her involvement in the struggle came in the form of building la Fundación Milivy, benefiting children battling cancer. Hosting various annual events, among them is the Three Kings Day visit to the children's hospital in San Juan. Here she states that Milivy must have been her child in another existence because of how much love she felt towards her. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/e3f13e56-1762-4f47-af15-df0c00464b42/basta.biekechildren.yasmin.hernandez.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes Vieques school children with Basta installation by Yasmin Hernandez. ” 2009. Museo Fuerte Conde de Mirasol, Vieques, PR. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/66d4c2d7-c169-45f8-8b6e-778439976900/Basta.YasminHernandez.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes Detail, “Basta” 2007. Acrylic on drab green US military canvas tent, approx 8' x 10'. This painting is of Yaurel Figueroa, who was 9 years old at the time. I met him with his dad and uncle at an encampment in Vieques protesting the intended privatization of a local beach back in 2006. His parents Emilio Figueroa and Elda Guadalupe Carasquillo are activists concerned with the health of their children. Now a young man, Yaurel has won Judo championships, has his own music career and was recently the stunt double running with the Puerto Rican flag in Bad Bunny’s video, “LA MuDANZA.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/89dc5771-449e-4983-84d3-a0737a6e4195/1915640_179793173468_3348151_n.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes For the October 10th, 2009 opening of my Bieké exhibition at El Museo Fuerte Conde de Mirasol in Vieques, most of the people I painted were in attendance. I was surprised however when Carmelo Felix Matta’s brother, whom I had never met, showed up to the opening deliberately dressed as his brother as he was captured in the painting. It almost looked like a portrait of him. He thanked for me paying tribute to his brother in this way. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/a3d4f7f6-a20b-45bb-9257-b4f0dad749af/2009YasminHernandezArt_valiente.zuleyka.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes “Valiente: Zuleyka”, 2009. Bieké-Valiente series. Acrylic, burlap, collage on camouflage, 20" x 30". Zuleyka Calderon's little daughter Milivy became a symbol for peace in Vieques when she passed from leukemia at the age of 5. Zuleyka shares, "Thank God the Navy left and children no longer have to suffer, but the contamination in the environment remains. They left but the contamination is still there. Until they clean up, there will be more children and many more people falling ill. Today the US Navy continues its detonations as part of its “clean up” which release more contaminants into the air and environment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/ecbde3b6-f646-4653-a41d-e6c0e5af7a4f/bastadetail.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes Detail, “Basta” 2007. Acrylic on drab green US military canvas tent, approx 8' x 10'. This painting is of Yaurel Figueroa, who was 9 years old at the time. I met him with his dad and uncle at an encampment in Vieques protesting the intended privatization of a local beach back in 2006. His parents Emilio Figueroa and Elda Guadalupe Carasquillo are activists concerned with the health of their children. Now a young man, Yaurel has won Judo championships, has his own music career and was recently the stunt double running with the Puerto Rican flag in Bad Bunny’s video, “LA MuDANZA.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/bcc54119-ae77-4a94-a60d-881ddc1b5c98/2009YasminHernandezArt_Bieke_zuleyka.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes Zuleyka Calderón stands alongside my portrait of her daughter Milivy Adams Calderón, who became a symbol of peace of justice when she died of leukemia at just five years old. I also painted Zuleyka as part of the Valiente series. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/51d3b20a-9c24-4000-938f-a9f5fcb8e61e/2009YasminHernandezArt_valienteNilda.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes “Valiente: Nilda”, 2009. Bieké-Valiente series. Acrylic, burlap, collage on camouflage, 20" x 30". “En Vieques la gente le perdió miedo al imperio.” Activist and small business incubator creator, life partner of Robert Rabin, Nilda Medina speaks of resisting colonizer strategies that work to keep us divided, strategies that are damaging to our spirits. She states that with unity, transparency, we can build trust. She states that the people of Vieques no longer fear the imperialist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/c0dd48c7-7230-44e6-9129-08d18760816d/2009YasminHernandezArt_ValienteRobert.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes “Valiente: Bob”, 2009. Bieké-Valiente series. Acrylic, burlap, collage on camouflage, 30" x 20". Robert Rabin Siegal, activist, director of el Museo Fuerte Conde de Mirasol, builder of el Archivo Histórico de Vieques, moved to Vieques from Boston, having spent most of his life as a Vieques resident. In this excerpt he speaks of the impact that the deaths of Angel Rodríguez Cristobal (1979) & David Sanes Rodríguez (1999) had on the struggle for peace & justice in Vieques. Robert is the person who offered the space for the exhibition of the Bieké: Tierra de Valientes project. After it was exhibited at el Fortín, 2009-10, he took the exhibit to two other local community spaces in Vieques, to la Universidad Interamericana in Fajardo and to la Universidad de Puerto Rico in Humacao. While at el Fortín he organized numerous school visits to see the exhibition, one which I did in person before the opening and the rest he would set up as a virtual call with me from New York in the museum conference space following a gallery tour. Like so many in Vieques, Robert ended his cancer battle in 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/d2a17d1f-207d-42a7-b4a2-78a457facb1c/flagsdetail.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes Detail, Puerto Rico and Vieques flags alongside inverted US stamp. “Basta” 2007. Acrylic on drab green US military canvas tent, approx 8' x 10'. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/d83f738a-14b2-4820-816f-84c81cd25204/2009YasminHernandezArt_ValienteAleida.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes “Valiente: Aleida”, 2009. Bieké-Valiente series. Acrylic, burlap, collage on camouflage, 20" x 30". Aleida Zenon speaks of the "hoyo", the military dump where they threw out perfectly good food and supplies. Kids would cut school to sneak into the hole to get food & supplies for their families. They avoided being caught & arrested by the soldiers by taking the camouflage clothing they found, using it to sneak in. The idea of "reclaiming camouflage" came from this statement. Aleida states that Vieques is twice colonized: by the US & Puerto Rico. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/00c65e4d-a6d0-4117-bae8-81e5bf26146d/warning+sign.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes Detail, fence and warning sign. “Basta,” 2007. Mixed media installation at the Jamaica Center of Arts & Learning, New York City. Following my 2006 trip to Vieques, even though the US Navy had closed their base three years earlier, it struck me to see fences with these warning signs in so many areas, still marking military property. I created the installation within a fence and included a similar sign made for this exhibition in Jamaica, Queens, NY. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/298f3ce4-8c5c-43a1-8d0c-93ba0773dc2e/2009YasminHernandezArt_ValienteZenon.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes “Valiente: Zenon”, 2009. Bieké-Valiente series. Acrylic, collage, burlap on camouflage fabric. Approx 30" x 20". “Me fui voluntario a la edad de 17 años y medio al ejército de EEUU de América. ¿Por qué? Porque tenía que aprender su estrategia. Yo tenía que pensar como un militar cada vez que fuera hacer una estrategia en contra de ellos. Si yo no puedo pensar como un militar, yo estoy liquidao ¿entiende?” One of the most insightful, informative interviews during this project, Carlos “Taso” Zenon was a fisherman and activist committed to ending the Navy occupation of Vieques. This passion began when he was a child who, one day, intervening to help a woman who was being harassed by a sailor, was beaten by that sailor in retaliation and hospitalized. In this excerpt, Zenon speaks of voluntarily enlisting in the US military to gain inside information on how to better strategize against them. Taso became an ancestor in 2020 at the age of 85. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/3f6ba1ad-a2bb-4f33-8fca-5012e2f2969a/basta.thumb.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes Fence detail. “Basta,” 2007. Mixed media installation at the Jamaica Center of Arts & Learning, New York City. Following my 2006 trip to Vieques, even though the US Navy had closed their base three years earlier, it struck me to see fences in so many areas, still marking military property. I created the installation within a fence for this exhibit Jamaica, Queens, NY. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/9e6db613-f010-4d4b-8711-4a42c158b5c8/2009YasminHernandezArt_valiente.nestor.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes “Valiente Nestor”, 2009. Bieké-Valiente series. Acrylic, burlap, collage on camouflage, 20" x 30". Nestor Guishard is a teacher, activist and a steward of the bioluminescent bay in Vieques who served prison time for protesting the US Navy. He explained the origins of his community in Esperanza, home to many Yoruba afrodescendants. In this interview excerpt he describes the legacy of pro-Vieques activist Ángel Rodríguez Cristobal, killed in a prison cell in Tallahassee on Veteran's Day 1979 for protesting the US Navy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/0ddd19ab-f63f-4426-82ec-ee3352df7683/yasminhernandezart.guadalupemagazine.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes I took this photo of long-time activist Ismael I took this 2006 photo of long-time activist Ismael Guadalupe in one of the magazines where weapons were stored by the US Navy on Vieques’ west end. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/932e7240-a8d8-4746-988d-048d5a9909a8/2009YasminHernandezArt_ValienteNorma.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes “Valiente Norma”, 2009. Bieké-Valiente series. Acrylic, burlap, collage on camouflage, 30" x 20". Portrait of the Vieques activist who is also a poet, artist and breast cancer survivor, Norma Torres Sanes. She is the wife of activist Ismael Guadalupe. The calligraphy features an excerpt from her interview in which she discusses the United States co-opting the term "America.” She discusses the many Americas (north, central and south) that fall under that category and clarifies how the US alone does not own rights to this term. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/512fb33a-625d-45b2-b4c4-50e6c717a9c7/yasminhernandezart.biekeboys.magazines.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes During a 2008 trip, I took this photo of boys running past magazines where the US Navy used to store weapons on Vieques’ west end. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/1bb33149-3775-460c-8e65-0c724d3b51bf/2009_YasminHernandezArt_ValienteIsmael.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes “Valiente Ismael” 2009. Bieké-Valiente series. Acrylic, burlap, collage on camouflage, 20" x 30". In this interview excerpt, long time Vieques activist, Ismael Guadalupe, part of the Vieques 21 arrested in 1979 (along with Ángel Rodríguez Cristobal) speaks of the new invasion of Vieques. Describing how today's tourism industry is not in the hands of Viequenses but owned by outside businesses, he speaks of the need for Viequenses to empower themselves and secure their own future. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/38f56641-849c-461b-adb0-4c2bc3606e00/yasminhernandezart.bombsonvieques.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes On the 9th anniversary (April 19th, 2008) of the death of David Sanes Rodriguez, we entered the bombing range on Vieques, still full of piles of bombs of the US Navy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/4cc230ad-f831-4116-a72b-5d3a5c797edd/yasminhernandezart.angelbust.bandidaje.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes This photo was taken on November 11th, 2008, the 29th anniversary of the death of Angel Rodrguez Cristobal, a Ciales activist arrested for protesting the US Navy in Vieques. Five months pregnant with my first son at the time, I was repainting the pedestal on which his bust rests overlooking Esperanza Bay. Also working on the restoration is Bandidaje in the background, one of the activists I painted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/0ebb55a3-50cb-49ee-9bdc-ccd356b34d29/yasminhernandezart.valiente.maria_2009.Bieke.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes “Valiente: María”, Bieké-Valiente. Mixed media on camouflage, 30" x 20". Known as “Simplemente Maria”, María Velázquez Rijo was born in St Croix as many Viequenses were displaced by the US Navy. There she fell in love with Viequense Carmelo Felix Matta. Together they returned & he began bulldozing military properties, reclaiming them for young couples like themselves. He is the founder of several communities including Monte Carmelo, named after him. María had a plena group with her family. She would compose plenas about the struggle, most notable around their epic story of being saved by Carmelo’s bees when the US Navy came to evict them from their home. The bees drove the Navy personnel off the property. María states you had to be brave, not afraid of the feds, "es tierra de valientes." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/68f9ba3b-e618-4682-bf9d-100f8ad2fd14/2009YasminHernandezArt.valiente.bandidaje.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes “Valiente Bandidaje”, 2009. Bieké-Valiente series. Acrylic, burlap, collage on camouflage, 20" x 30". Mixed media on camouflage. “Señor juez, usted lo que tiene es un bandidaje conmigo.” (Your honor, what you have here with me is a banditry.” Known for his nickname, that came out of his court trial, for an accusation he put on the judge, folks on the street would greet him with, “¡Que Bandidaje!” In this interview excerpt, Bandidaje describes how Vieques suffers from the loss of its most precious resource: its youth. He speaks of the lack of opportunities that send young people flocking to other lands each year to pursue higher education and jobs and how oftentimes they don't return. Bandidaje himself would divide his time between Vieques and St Croix, one of the primary places Viequenses were displaced to during the Navy occupation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/78330788-2496-47e2-94c5-82b30ff7a7f3/2009YasminHernandezArt_valiente.mario.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes “Valiente Mario”, 2009. Bieké-Valiente series. Acrylic, burlap, collage on camouflage, 30" x 20". I met Mario Solis at el Museo Fuerte Conde de Mirasol in 2006. He was always eager to share history on the pieces in the collection and was most passionate about asserting Bieké's indigenous history beyond the Taíno people (dated 1200-... AD). Vieques holds the remains of a 4,000 year old indigenous man, testament to our long history before Columbus' arrival. He proudly wore this pendant of el condor andino, among Vieques’ most prized archaeological finds distinguishing its Huecoide culture which created these figures in semiprecious stones including jade around 300 BCE, long predating what is known as “Taíno.” Because there are no condors in the Antilles, these figures are testament to this culture’s connection to the Andes/ South America. What fascinated me about Mario was that he played in a steel drum band. I came to see Vieques as the link between Puerto Rico and our non-spanish-speaking Caribbean family. Mario passed from valiente to cemí shortly after this exhibit opened. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/c8198d4d-e827-4833-8c3d-b305d4e17caa/2009_YasminHernandezArt_ValienteJorge.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes “Valiente Jorge Cruz”, 2009. Bieké: Valientes series. Acrylic, collage, burlap on camouflage fabric, 20" x 30". As the clock struck midnight on the eve of May 1st, 2003, the people demanded that the US Navy base be closed, but all remained the same. Enraged, they protested. In the end, five Viequenses were sent to federal prison in the US. Jorge was one of them, forced to leave his wife and family who could barely visit him. In this interview excerpt he speaks to how the US is still controlling Vieques. Describing seeing federal agents in Vieques upon his return from prison, he states, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/bf7a5dcb-5451-4c01-ae67-0574cfde5dce/2009YasminHernandezArt_valiente.donrafa.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes “Valiente Don Rafa,” 2009. Bieké-Valiente series. Acrylic, burlap, collage on camouflage, 30" x 20". "No pertence a ningun americano." Don Rafa's house was recognized by a lancha parked on his patio on the stretch of road between Isabel II and Esperanza. In this excerpt he speaks of the continued struggle for peace & justice, demanding that the lands formerly used by the US military be returned to the people of Vieques, the rightful stewards. Much of this property is still being held by the US government. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/870e639a-e5aa-4aae-96d9-a0e1d94f021c/2009_YasminHernandezArt_ValienteMillito.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes “Valiente Millito,” 2009. Bieké-Valiente series. Acrylic, burlap, collage on camouflage, 20" x 30". Millo, father of Yaurel, the boy that I painted on the military tent, was part of a group on horseback that guided protestors into the bombing range. He shared the experience of his arrest in his interview. In the featured excerpt, he emotionally describes a moment of being led through the prison in San Juan. They had been taken in through the back & had no idea that a huge manifestation was occurring out front. While being led down the hall shackled at the hands and feet (walking like a penguin as he described) he was able to get a glimpse at the crowd through a window & see the little faces of his two children. He said he wanted to break the chains. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/3bd910e2-181f-486c-b6ce-813b2445239f/2009YasminHernandezArt.valiente.blanca.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes “Valiente Blanca”, 2009. Bieké-Valiente series. Acrylic, burlap, collage on camouflage, 20" x 30". Blanca, Millito’s mother, reminisces on the time she entered the bombing range with a group of Vieques women. Upon their arrest, they were taken handcuffed in a bus chanting "Mujeres viequenses esas sí que son valientes." (Vieques women are courageous). She laughs at how the judge ordered them not to jump fences back into the bombing range. She stated that they could crawl under instead. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/3f4a9ff3-8b80-4560-bf6a-60e8695c0749/2009YasminHernandezArt_Yaurel.basta.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes 2009, Yaurel, son of Millito and Elda, stands alongside his portrait, created two years before. Today Yaurel is a young man who has won Judo Championships, has his own music career and was recently a stunt double running with the Puerto Rican flag in Bad Bunny's video to "LA MuDANZA." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/b3d15c71-5579-4e9a-b29d-7ab5260b345c/2009YasminHernandezArt_millo.elda.yaz.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes Standing alongside the Basta painting with Millito and Elda, parents of Yaurel, featured in the painting. Bieké: Tierra de Valientes opening reception at el Museo Fuerte Conde de Mirasol en Vieques, October 10th, 2009. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/9d6f74d2-e3d3-4ea0-b695-956ff8006739/2009YasminHernandezArt_BlancaBieke.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes Blanca standing alongside her portrait at the opening reception of "Bieké: Tierra de Valientes" at el Museo Fuerte Conde de Mirasol en Vieques, October 10th, 2009. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/dc79ae0a-efe8-409b-8483-a33740e57b47/jose.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes José and his son at the Bieké Opening in Vieques, October, 2009. (Photo:Mary Sefranek) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/20e68f56-43e0-4edc-a174-eb3209f3cc41/2009YasminHernandezArt_jorge.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes Jorge Cruz stands with his portrait at the opening reception of "Bieké: Tierra de Valientes" at el Museo Fuerte Conde de Mirasol en Vieques, October 10th, 2009. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/3b625963-8dce-4f8b-988a-7578ebea4b2b/2009YasminHernandezArt_donrafabieke.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes Don Rafa stands with his portrait at the opening reception of "Bieké: Tierra de Valientes" at el Museo Fuerte Conde de Mirasol en Vieques, October 10th, 2009. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/e9816f7c-ba65-41b9-be19-7627219bb68a/2009YasminHernandezArt_Bieke_maria.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes Simplemente María, Vieques activist María Velázquez Rijo, wife of Carmelo Felix Matta, stands alongside her portrait at el Museo Fuerte Conde de Mirasol en Vieques, October 10th, 2009. When she saw her portrait, she asked why I had painted her so serious, when she’s always smiling. Apparently, this photo is proof. María passed in 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/9e129c57-2150-4eb4-afa0-e3fcfaf3ce20/2009YasminHernandezArt_Bieke_norma.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes Standing alongside her portrait is Vieques activist, poet and artist Norma Torres Sanes at the opening reception of "Bieké: Tierra de Valientes" at el Museo Fuerte Conde de Mirasol en Vieques, October 10th, 2009. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/55547dcc-a4dc-446a-9b73-8860e0b15c8c/2009YasminHernandezArt.Bieke.ladym.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes Standing alongside her portrait is rapper/ singer/ activist Monica, AKA Lady M at the opening reception of "Bieké: Tierra de Valientes" at el Museo Fuerte Conde de Mirasol en Vieques, October 10th, 2009. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/88eb602f-4faa-4cf6-b814-68b3e47983b0/2009YasminHernandezArt_BiekeNnatra.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes Standing alongside his portrait is Vieques activist/ rapper/ lyricist MC Natra at the opening reception of "Bieké: Tierra de Valientes" at el Museo Fuerte Conde de Mirasol en Vieques, October 10th, 2009. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/e7841cb0-1230-4b84-a55a-3a4c25d01095/2009YasminHernandezArt_Bieke.mario.yaz.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes Mario Solis and I at the opening reception of "Bieké: Tierra de Valientes" at el Museo Fuerte Conde de Mirasol en Vieques, October 10th, 2009. He unfortunately passed shortly thereafter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/0de03ac2-7539-41b4-b4bb-8a9671607425/2009YasminHernandezArt.Bieke.miguel.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes Miguel Barba standing alongside his portrait at the opening reception of "Bieké: Tierra de Valientes" at el Museo Fuerte Conde de Mirasol en Vieques, October 10th, 2009. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/c71a81fd-9eb6-4b67-bb7e-19c888314ef6/2009YasminHernandezArt_BiekeMimita.jpg Art - Bieké: Tierra de Valientes Mimita who captivated me with her interview, standing alongside her portrait at the opening reception of "Bieké: Tierra de Valientes" at el Museo Fuerte Conde de Mirasol en Vieques, October 10th, 2009. https://yasminhernandez.art/art/archivos-subversivos monthly 0.5 2025-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/80c2bcf4-3dad-4e04-8d85-9497957f291c/2007YasminHernandezArt.CarpetaAlbizu.jpg Art - Archivos Subversivos "Carpeta: Pedro Albizu Campos," 2007, Archivos Subversivos. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic, collage on canvas. 24" x 18". Featured is Nationalist Party leader Pedro Albizu Campos alongside documents from government files, revealing the radiation torture he was subjected to while held as a political prisoner of the United States. One letter is written to Albert Einstein asking for his support and investigation into the matter. Many of these documents were taken from the Ruth Reynolds papers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/81d47990-b3cb-4c0c-8487-d441369b9248/2007.YasminHernandezArt.carpeta.juliadeburgos.jpg Art - Archivos Subversivos "Carpeta: Julia de Burgos" 2007. Archivos Subversivos. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic, collage, burlap, paper clips, file labels on manila file folder, 18" x 12". Puerto Rican Nationalist poet Julia de Burgos is featured alongside her most "subversive" poetry calling for revolution and the liberation of Puerto Rico. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/7131df02-43a8-462d-a8b9-c76cac9b10c8/2007YasminHernandezArt.CarpetaBlanca.jpg Art - Archivos Subversivos "Carpeta: Blanca Canales" 2007. Archivos Subversivos. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic, collage, burlap, paper clips, file labels on manila file folder, 18" x 12". 1950 Jayuya uprising leader, Puerto Rican Nationalist, Blanca Canales, is featured alongside newspaper clippings of the revolution she led. Spreading throughout the island, the colonizer responded by arresting thousands and with the US National Guard dropping bombs on Utuado. Photos of her arrest and elements of her actual government file, #2, are copied and pasted into the painting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/23f6c0e7-179f-4f14-8636-a297c163c9de/2007YasminHernandezArt.Carpeta1950..jpg Art - Archivos Subversivos "Carpeta: 1950", 2007. Archivos Subversivos. Yasmin Hernandez. Mixed media on canvas, 20" x 24". This work includes a collage of images and newspaper clipping taken during and after the Nationalist insurrections of 1950 in Puerto Rico. The US government responded by sending the National Guard and bombing the town of Utuado. This image shows a national guardsman rounding up women and children. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/99991bae-4671-40f7-ac82-b8aa84c4abf1/2007YasminHernandezArt.CarpetaReynolds.jpg Art - Archivos Subversivos "Carpeta: Ruth Reynolds," 2007. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic, collage, burlap, paper clips, file labels on manila file folder, 18" x 12". Librarian, archivist, leader of American's for Puerto Rico's Independence, friend of Albizu Campos, Ruth Reynolds is featured alongside letters written by her organization in support of members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party. Photos of her arrest and elements of her actual government file, #1340 are copied and pasted into the painting. The Ruth Reynolds Papers at El Centro Archive includes details of Pedro Albizu Campos' case, other Nationalists and student activism at the University of Puerto Rico. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/6adae2ab-1efa-44b8-804a-f4c6d62d11f1/2007.YasminHernandezArt.CarpetaJesusColon.jpg Art - Archivos Subversivos "Carpeta: Jesús Colón, 2007. Yasmin Hernandez. Archivos Subversivos. Acrylic, collage, burlap, paper clips, file labels on manila file folder, 18" x 12". Journalist, writer, activist, communist, Jesús Colón is featured alongside newspaper clippings and images identifying him as a "red leader" and detailing his having to appear before the "UnAmerican" committee. Colón moved to Brooklyn from San Juan at the age of 16 in 1917, then documented the early communities of Puerto Ricans in NYC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/194d2a2c-993f-4866-a981-fb81fd53944e/2007.YasminHernandezArt.CarpetaLolita.jpg Art - Archivos Subversivos "Carpeta: Lolita Lebron", 2007. Archivos Subversivos. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic, collage, burlap, paper clips, file labels on manila file folder, 18" x 12". Puerto Rican Nationalist Lolita Lebron is featured alongside images of her March 1st 1954 arrest and court hearing transcripts detailing the radiation experiments she was subjected to while in prison. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/c15570ab-a366-4444-92bd-68c31eae839c/2007YasminHernandezArt.CarpetaFiliberto.jpg Art - Archivos Subversivos "Carpeta: Filiberto Ojeda Ríos." Archivos Subversivos. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic, collage, burlap, paper clips, file labels on manila file folder, 9" x 12". Featured is clandestine revolutionary Filiberto Ojeda Ríos alongside his FBI Wanted poster & newspaper clippings on actions by his organization el Ejército Popular Boricua/ Los Macheteros. Filiberto Ojeda Ríos was hunted & assassinated by the FBI at his home in Hormigueros, Puerto Rico at age 72. Shot by a sniper bullet to the clavicle, left to bleed to death on September 23rd 2005, anniversary of Lares revolution. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/512845bf-8daf-4d14-95be-ed39c44fe61d/2007.YasminHernandezArt_CarpetaGerena.jpg Art - Archivos Subversivos "Carpeta: Victor Gerena". 2007. Archivos Subversivos. Acrylic, collage, burlap, Wells Fargo patch on canvas. 24" x 18". Featured is revolutionary at large, Victor Gerena, an armed vehicle guard who injected his co-workers with sleep serum and made off with over $7 million. Developments later revealed his connection to the armed clandestine organization el Ejército Popular Boricua/ Los Macheteros. Newspaper clippings of Los Macheteros/ 3 Kings toy distributions post-heist are included too. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/ee2b1d5d-bc17-459b-9faa-9c0a104eb36c/2007YasminHernandezArt.CarpetaRichiePerez.jpg Art - Archivos Subversivos "Carpeta: Richie Perez," 2007. Archivos Subversivos. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic, collage, burlap, paper clips, file labels on manila file folder, 18" x 12". Part of the PRESENTE! The Young Lords in New York exhibition at the Bronx Museum 2015. Young Lord Richie Perez is featured alongside NYPD memos of surveillance of Perez' work & that of other Puerto Rican independence supporters and Young Lords Party Members. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/e8324497-1658-4994-8279-80a33caf656f/2007YasminHernandezArt.Encarcelados..jpg Art - Archivos Subversivos "Encarcelados," 2007. Archivos Subversivos. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on burlap, approx 80" x 40". This scroll features just 15 painted portraits of many Puerto Rican political prisoners. Each includes the year of their arrest & the year of their release, except the top three. At the time of the painting (2007) the top three individuals were still imprisoned. https://yasminhernandez.art/art/installations monthly 0.5 2025-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/c5d355b0-dbc8-4c5a-a4c2-3a55cc418a75/OposicionPatriotica_Instalacion_FOR_YasminHernandezArt2024.jpg Art - Installations “La Oposición Patriótica”, 2024. Yasmin Hernandez. Installation at la Casa Museo Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, Hormigueros, Puerto Rico. Afro.Bori.Libertaria, is part of la Alianza de Museos de Puerto Rico’s initiative Tiznando el país, celebrating Afro Boricua artists and themes in exhibitions across Puerto Rico. A collaboration between painters S. Damary Burgos and Yasmin Hernandez, Afro.Bori.Libertaria is a tribute to Afro Boricuas in our liberation struggle and a celebration of global African Liberation solidarities as inspired by the library collection of Filiberto Ojeda Ríos. This work recreates notes written by Filiberto towards his own defense while on trial. It is created in the colors of fireflies, the same colors of black liberation, and re-envisions the bullet blasts left on his wall by the FBI when he was assassinated on September 23rd, 2005. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/c5d355b0-dbc8-4c5a-a4c2-3a55cc418a75/OposicionPatriotica_Instalacion_FOR_YasminHernandezArt2024.jpg Art - Installations “La Oposición Patriótica”, 2024. Yasmin Hernandez. Installation at la Casa Museo Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, Hormigueros, Puerto Rico. Afro.Bori.Libertaria, is part of la Alianza de Museos de Puerto Rico’s initiative Tiznando el país, celebrating Afro Boricua artists and themes in exhibitions across Puerto Rico. A collaboration between painters S. Damary Burgos and Yasmin Hernandez, Afro.Bori.Libertaria is a tribute to Afro Boricuas in our liberation struggle and a celebration of global African Liberation solidarities as inspired by the library collection of Filiberto Ojeda Ríos. This work recreates notes written by Filiberto towards his own defense while on trial. It is created in the colors of fireflies, the same colors of black liberation, and re-envisions the bullet blasts left on his wall by the FBI when he was assassinated on September 23rd, 2005. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/9004c04f-2f40-4c22-bb28-42b77d33d57f/Pasillocrop.CasaMfor.jpg Art - Installations “La Oposición Patriótica”, 2024. Yasmin Hernandez. Installation at la Casa Museo Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, Hormigueros, Puerto Rico. This work, recreating notes written by Filiberto towards his own defense while on trial, was installed in the space where Filiberto used to keep his generator. It is next to a narrow corridor whose posterior wall bears some of the most prominent bullet blasts left on his wall by the FBI when he was assassinated on September 23rd, 2005. These are replicated on the painting, rendered as the glowing spheres of fireflies, whose colors are the same colors of Black Liberation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/9004c04f-2f40-4c22-bb28-42b77d33d57f/Pasillocrop.CasaMfor.jpg Art - Installations “La Oposición Patriótica”, 2024. Yasmin Hernandez. Installation at la Casa Museo Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, Hormigueros, Puerto Rico. This work, recreating notes written by Filiberto towards his own defense while on trial, was installed in the space where Filiberto used to keep his generator. It is next to a narrow corridor whose posterior wall bears some of the most prominent bullet blasts left on his wall by the FBI when he was assassinated on September 23rd, 2005. These are replicated on the painting, rendered as the glowing spheres of fireflies, whose colors are the same colors of Black Liberation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/86382f2c-0785-4c79-9f26-fd37e5802f52/JaniaYlaOposicionPatriotrica_YasminHernandezArt2024.jpg Art - Installations Janía with the installation “La Oposición Patriótica,” 2024, by Yasmin Hernandez. September 23rd, 2024, anniversary of el Grito de Lares and the assassination of Puerto Rican Freedom Fighter Filiberto Ojeda Ríos. Casa Museo Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, Hormigueros, Puerto Rico. Opening of the exhibition Afro.Bori.Libertaria, as part of la Alianza de Museos de Puerto Rico’s initiative Tiznando el país, celebrating Afro Boricua artists and themes in exhibitions across Puerto Rico. Afro.Bori.Libertaria, a collaboration between painters S. Damary Burgos and Yasmin Hernandez is a tribute to Afro Boricuas in our liberation struggle and a celebration of global African Liberation solidarities as inspired by the library collection of Filiberto Ojeda Ríos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/86382f2c-0785-4c79-9f26-fd37e5802f52/JaniaYlaOposicionPatriotrica_YasminHernandezArt2024.jpg Art - Installations Janía with the installation “La Oposición Patriótica,” 2024, by Yasmin Hernandez. September 23rd, 2024, anniversary of el Grito de Lares and the assassination of Puerto Rican Freedom Fighter Filiberto Ojeda Ríos. Casa Museo Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, Hormigueros, Puerto Rico. Opening of the exhibition Afro.Bori.Libertaria, as part of la Alianza de Museos de Puerto Rico’s initiative Tiznando el país, celebrating Afro Boricua artists and themes in exhibitions across Puerto Rico. Afro.Bori.Libertaria, a collaboration between painters S. Damary Burgos and Yasmin Hernandez is a tribute to Afro Boricuas in our liberation struggle and a celebration of global African Liberation solidarities as inspired by the library collection of Filiberto Ojeda Ríos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/d63d9084-6699-4db4-84ae-021a069f270c/CucubaNacion.2023_Rematriation1YasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Installations 2023 view of "Portraits from the Trench" (Rematriation portraits) CucubaNación, Mayaguez, PR. Yasmin Hernandez. Portraits channeling abyss aesthetics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/d63d9084-6699-4db4-84ae-021a069f270c/CucubaNacion.2023_Rematriation1YasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Installations 2023 view of "Portraits from the Trench" (Rematriation portraits) CucubaNación, Mayaguez, PR. Yasmin Hernandez. Portraits channeling abyss aesthetics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/1731176980310-5LY8F2C44BV8JGE7N8Q8/20240605_151619.jpg Art - Installations "Portraits from the Trench" 2024. Yasmin Hernandez Art. Installation view at CucubaNación, Mayaguez, channeling abyss aesthetics and bioluminescence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/1731176980310-5LY8F2C44BV8JGE7N8Q8/20240605_151619.jpg Art - Installations "Portraits from the Trench" 2024. Yasmin Hernandez Art. Installation view at CucubaNación, Mayaguez, channeling abyss aesthetics and bioluminescence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/6a4d86bc-516e-457e-a607-12e0980b5617/wm.CucubaNacion.Night1.jpg Art - Installations CucubaNación, Mayagüez, PR, 2022. Yasmin Hernandez. Opening exhibition of glowing portraits inspired by our bioluminescent bays to the left and fireflies and cucubanos to the right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/6a4d86bc-516e-457e-a607-12e0980b5617/wm.CucubaNacion.Night1.jpg Art - Installations CucubaNación, Mayagüez, PR, 2022. Yasmin Hernandez. Opening exhibition of glowing portraits inspired by our bioluminescent bays to the left and fireflies and cucubanos to the right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/2857bc26-f24e-43aa-a729-51ce98fb0c48/wm.CucubaNacion.Fireflywall.Night.jpg Art - Installations Cucubano and firefly-inspired paintings by Yasmin Hernandez at CucubaNación, Mayagüez, PR, created as an immersive installation in celebration of Boricua bioluminescence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/2857bc26-f24e-43aa-a729-51ce98fb0c48/wm.CucubaNacion.Fireflywall.Night.jpg Art - Installations Cucubano and firefly-inspired paintings by Yasmin Hernandez at CucubaNación, Mayagüez, PR, created as an immersive installation in celebration of Boricua bioluminescence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/599202fb-ae98-4ddc-b120-b255b9bbabb1/04_YasminHernandezSobresalientes.jpg Art - Installations “Sobresalientes”, 2016. Galería Betances, Mayagüez, PR. Yasmin Hernandez Four acrylic paintings on camouflage fabric and her toddler sons' camouflage pants, size 3T and 4T, barbed wire, found wood. Approx 3' x 5'. Sobresalientes are images of Vieques youth and its environment, rising from the camouflage, leaving a military history behind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/599202fb-ae98-4ddc-b120-b255b9bbabb1/04_YasminHernandezSobresalientes.jpg Art - Installations “Sobresalientes”, 2016. Galería Betances, Mayagüez, PR. Yasmin Hernandez Four acrylic paintings on camouflage fabric and her toddler sons' camouflage pants, size 3T and 4T, barbed wire, found wood. Approx 3' x 5'. Sobresalientes are images of Vieques youth and its environment, rising from the camouflage, leaving a military history behind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/030bc5c6-a100-4a33-8ea0-62f3af4e65f1/05.Sobresalientes.YasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Installations Yasmin Hernandez and her Sobresalientes installation in 2016, Galería Betances, Mayagüez, PR. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/030bc5c6-a100-4a33-8ea0-62f3af4e65f1/05.Sobresalientes.YasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Installations Yasmin Hernandez and her Sobresalientes installation in 2016, Galería Betances, Mayagüez, PR. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/5ff7640d-525b-4271-8633-2ad582e58821/2016_YasminHernandezEsperanza.jpg Art - Installations “Esperanza,” 2016. Yasmin Hernandez. Bieké Sobresalientes series. Acrylic paint on my son's camouflage pants, size 3T. This image is of a little girl I once saw playing in Esperanza beach when I was six months pregnant with my first son and still researching for my Bieké project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/5ff7640d-525b-4271-8633-2ad582e58821/2016_YasminHernandezEsperanza.jpg Art - Installations “Esperanza,” 2016. Yasmin Hernandez. Bieké Sobresalientes series. Acrylic paint on my son's camouflage pants, size 3T. This image is of a little girl I once saw playing in Esperanza beach when I was six months pregnant with my first son and still researching for my Bieké project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/3a7befa5-4cac-42d5-be53-7a5b38f4b660/2014detailOutlawClothelineYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Installations Detail, “Outlaw Clothesline.” Yasmin Hernandez. Nine mixed media paintings on cotton bandanas, 20" x 20" each, chrome chain, clothespins. The Outlaw Clothesline is an installation comprised of mixed media works on bandanas in memory of my brother Joseph Hernandez who ended his cancer battle in April of 2010. The bandanas piece together chapters of his life from beginning to end. The bandanas are intimate tribute to my brother's life, and to the Brooklyn of our youth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/3a7befa5-4cac-42d5-be53-7a5b38f4b660/2014detailOutlawClothelineYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Installations Detail, “Outlaw Clothesline.” Yasmin Hernandez. Nine mixed media paintings on cotton bandanas, 20" x 20" each, chrome chain, clothespins. The Outlaw Clothesline is an installation comprised of mixed media works on bandanas in memory of my brother Joseph Hernandez who ended his cancer battle in April of 2010. The bandanas piece together chapters of his life from beginning to end. The bandanas are intimate tribute to my brother's life, and to the Brooklyn of our youth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/174f41f2-c060-42cf-b21b-e1209962cd08/sonnydeLightYasminHernandez.jpg Art - Installations Yasmin Hernandez with the Outlaw Clothesline installation, 2014, New York City. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/174f41f2-c060-42cf-b21b-e1209962cd08/sonnydeLightYasminHernandez.jpg Art - Installations Yasmin Hernandez with the Outlaw Clothesline installation, 2014, New York City. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/6b38481e-663e-4f9b-9daf-b0de116ec64f/2009ContaminadosViequesYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Installations “Contaminados” 2010. Bieké series. Flower petals in 10 of my brother's former Chemotherapy drug transport bags, 7' x 4'. Museo Fuerte Conde de Mirasol, Vieques, Puerto Rico. This is a commentary on the contamination & cancer rates resulting from 60+ years of the US Navy's bomb practices on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques. Several of the people I had interviewed for my project were cancer survivors, or had lost loved ones to cancer. My brother was diagnosed back in NYC during one of my research trips to Vieques. He collected these bags in anticipation of this installation. He underwent a stem cell transplant during the exhibit's run & passed from cancer a week after the exhibit closed. Robert Rabin, director at El Museo Fuerte Conde de Mirasol who invited me to exhibit at the museum was too lost to cancer in 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/6b38481e-663e-4f9b-9daf-b0de116ec64f/2009ContaminadosViequesYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Installations “Contaminados” 2010. Bieké series. Flower petals in 10 of my brother's former Chemotherapy drug transport bags, 7' x 4'. Museo Fuerte Conde de Mirasol, Vieques, Puerto Rico. This is a commentary on the contamination & cancer rates resulting from 60+ years of the US Navy's bomb practices on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques. Several of the people I had interviewed for my project were cancer survivors, or had lost loved ones to cancer. My brother was diagnosed back in NYC during one of my research trips to Vieques. He collected these bags in anticipation of this installation. He underwent a stem cell transplant during the exhibit's run & passed from cancer a week after the exhibit closed. Robert Rabin, director at El Museo Fuerte Conde de Mirasol who invited me to exhibit at the museum was too lost to cancer in 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/a03d59bc-2ad1-4c87-961f-390229c95b28/2009detailContaminadosYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Installations Detail, “Contaminados” 2009. Yasmin Hernandez. Flower petals in 10 of my brother's former Chemotherapy drug transport bags, 7' x 4'. Museo Fuerte Conde de Mirasol, Vieques, Puerto Rico. This is a commentary on the contamination & cancer rates resulting from 60+ years of the US Navy's bomb practices on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques. My brother in NYC collected these bags in anticipation of this installation. He underwent a stem cell transplant during the exhibit's run & passed from cancer a week after the exhibit closed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/a03d59bc-2ad1-4c87-961f-390229c95b28/2009detailContaminadosYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Installations Detail, “Contaminados” 2009. Yasmin Hernandez. Flower petals in 10 of my brother's former Chemotherapy drug transport bags, 7' x 4'. Museo Fuerte Conde de Mirasol, Vieques, Puerto Rico. This is a commentary on the contamination & cancer rates resulting from 60+ years of the US Navy's bomb practices on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques. My brother in NYC collected these bags in anticipation of this installation. He underwent a stem cell transplant during the exhibit's run & passed from cancer a week after the exhibit closed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/a88249b1-fdba-4bb6-a90e-831dd11b254e/2009detail2ContaminadosYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Installations Detail, “Contaminados” 2009. Yasmin Hernandez. Flower petals in 10 of my brother's former Chemotherapy drug transport bags, 7' x 4'. Museo Fuerte Conde de Mirasol, Vieques, Puerto Rico. This is a commentary on the contamination & cancer rates resulting from 60+ years of the US Navy's bomb practices on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques. My brother in NYC collected these bags in anticipation of this installation. He underwent a stem cell transplant during the exhibit's run & passed from cancer a week after the exhibit closed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/a88249b1-fdba-4bb6-a90e-831dd11b254e/2009detail2ContaminadosYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Installations Detail, “Contaminados” 2009. Yasmin Hernandez. Flower petals in 10 of my brother's former Chemotherapy drug transport bags, 7' x 4'. Museo Fuerte Conde de Mirasol, Vieques, Puerto Rico. This is a commentary on the contamination & cancer rates resulting from 60+ years of the US Navy's bomb practices on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques. My brother in NYC collected these bags in anticipation of this installation. He underwent a stem cell transplant during the exhibit's run & passed from cancer a week after the exhibit closed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/011b3388-4a2d-4aaa-9bf8-0af916390447/12_YasminHernandezBasta.jpg Art - Installations “Basta,” 2009. Yasmin Hernandez. Bieké: Tierra de Valientes series. Acrylic painting on military tent, Approx 10' x 8'. Chain link fencing, wire cutters and military debris. For this 2009 edition of my Basta installation, the fence is cut down as the people of Vieques did when they cut down the fences that demarcating civilian from occupied US military properties. The military items were collected by Vieques activist Robert Rabin in the former bombing range. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/011b3388-4a2d-4aaa-9bf8-0af916390447/12_YasminHernandezBasta.jpg Art - Installations “Basta,” 2009. Yasmin Hernandez. Bieké: Tierra de Valientes series. Acrylic painting on military tent, Approx 10' x 8'. Chain link fencing, wire cutters and military debris. For this 2009 edition of my Basta installation, the fence is cut down as the people of Vieques did when they cut down the fences that demarcating civilian from occupied US military properties. The military items were collected by Vieques activist Robert Rabin in the former bombing range. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/e272e0fe-637d-4766-95c6-87709f23676b/alter.alters.thumb.jpg Art - Installations Detail of “Basta,” 2009. Yasmin Hernandez. Bieké: Tierra de Valientes series. Military debris collected by activist Robert Rabin in the US Navy's bombing range on Vieques. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/e272e0fe-637d-4766-95c6-87709f23676b/alter.alters.thumb.jpg Art - Installations Detail of “Basta,” 2009. Yasmin Hernandez. Bieké: Tierra de Valientes series. Military debris collected by activist Robert Rabin in the US Navy's bombing range on Vieques. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/c45999e2-66c8-434e-9e2f-a14db399232c/2008caracolphillyYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Installations "Cuando suena el caracol" 2008. Yasmin Hernandez. Installation at Taller Puertorriqueño, Inc., Philadelphia, PA. This work was originally created in 2006 for El Museo's Bienal: The (S) Files at el Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico. A tribute to our jibaro past and a reclamation of jibaro culture in the present, it includes a portrait of Julia de Burgos and singer Andrés Jiménez, “el Jíbaro,” as part of my Soul Rebels series honoring revolutionary poets and musicians. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/c45999e2-66c8-434e-9e2f-a14db399232c/2008caracolphillyYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Installations "Cuando suena el caracol" 2008. Yasmin Hernandez. Installation at Taller Puertorriqueño, Inc., Philadelphia, PA. This work was originally created in 2006 for El Museo's Bienal: The (S) Files at el Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico. A tribute to our jibaro past and a reclamation of jibaro culture in the present, it includes a portrait of Julia de Burgos and singer Andrés Jiménez, “el Jíbaro,” as part of my Soul Rebels series honoring revolutionary poets and musicians. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/4ad65a2c-f5a9-461d-ba2f-f3f02de9e141/2007YemayaEscutegalleryviewYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Installations “Yemaya,” 2007. Yasmin Hernandez. Installation view from gallery entrance. Museo Casa Escuté, Carolina, Puerto Rico. This was the seventh year since debuting my Yemaya installation in 2000. I retired it following this beautiful exhibit, Espirituales Afro, curated by Marta Moreno Vega and Marielba Torres. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/4ad65a2c-f5a9-461d-ba2f-f3f02de9e141/2007YemayaEscutegalleryviewYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Installations “Yemaya,” 2007. Yasmin Hernandez. Installation view from gallery entrance. Museo Casa Escuté, Carolina, Puerto Rico. This was the seventh year since debuting my Yemaya installation in 2000. I retired it following this beautiful exhibit, Espirituales Afro, curated by Marta Moreno Vega and Marielba Torres. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/048e27ff-5b8d-4e9d-9104-90a6ee2d525d/2007yemayaescuteYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Installations Yemaya, 2007. Oil on Canvas, 4' x3', fabric, peacock feathers, seashells, sea stones, straw mat, flowers. Museo Casa Escuté, Carolina, Puerto Rico. Altar to Yoruba deity of motherhood and the sea, Yemaya. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/048e27ff-5b8d-4e9d-9104-90a6ee2d525d/2007yemayaescuteYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Installations Yemaya, 2007. Oil on Canvas, 4' x3', fabric, peacock feathers, seashells, sea stones, straw mat, flowers. Museo Casa Escuté, Carolina, Puerto Rico. Altar to Yoruba deity of motherhood and the sea, Yemaya. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/36e1e5e8-d904-4610-be4a-a49ba5b442fb/yemayaescuteleftview.jpg Art - Installations “Yemaya,” 2007. Yasmin Hernandez. Oil on Canvas, 4' x3', fabric, peacock feathers, seashells, sea stones, straw mat, flowers. Museo Casa Escuté, Carolina, Puerto Rico. Altar to the Yoruba goddess of motherhood and the sea, Yemaya. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/36e1e5e8-d904-4610-be4a-a49ba5b442fb/yemayaescuteleftview.jpg Art - Installations “Yemaya,” 2007. Yasmin Hernandez. Oil on Canvas, 4' x3', fabric, peacock feathers, seashells, sea stones, straw mat, flowers. Museo Casa Escuté, Carolina, Puerto Rico. Altar to the Yoruba goddess of motherhood and the sea, Yemaya. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/af8855f5-6c80-4b98-86b4-9059aadcd51a/2007detailYemayaEscuteYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Installations “Yemaya,” 2007. Yasmin Hernandez. Oil on Canvas, 4' x3', fabric, peacock feathers, seashells, sea stones, straw mat, flowers. Museo Casa Escuté, Carolina, Puerto Rico. Altar to the Yoruba goddess of motherhood and the sea, Yemaya. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/af8855f5-6c80-4b98-86b4-9059aadcd51a/2007detailYemayaEscuteYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Installations “Yemaya,” 2007. Yasmin Hernandez. Oil on Canvas, 4' x3', fabric, peacock feathers, seashells, sea stones, straw mat, flowers. Museo Casa Escuté, Carolina, Puerto Rico. Altar to the Yoruba goddess of motherhood and the sea, Yemaya. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/4e04de6e-91be-4808-bc3c-954826103ece/2007EscuteInstallingYemaya_YasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Installations Yasmin organizing seashells and stones at Casa Escuté, Carolina, Puerto Rico, July, 2007. “Yemaya,” 2007. Yasmin Hernandez. Oil on Canvas, 4' x3', fabric, peacock feathers, seashells, sea stones, straw mat, flowers. Museo Casa Escuté, Carolina, Puerto Rico. Altar to the Yoruba goddess of motherhood and the sea, Yemaya. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/4e04de6e-91be-4808-bc3c-954826103ece/2007EscuteInstallingYemaya_YasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Installations Yasmin organizing seashells and stones at Casa Escuté, Carolina, Puerto Rico, July, 2007. “Yemaya,” 2007. Yasmin Hernandez. Oil on Canvas, 4' x3', fabric, peacock feathers, seashells, sea stones, straw mat, flowers. Museo Casa Escuté, Carolina, Puerto Rico. Altar to the Yoruba goddess of motherhood and the sea, Yemaya. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/447a16c3-0d3c-4b14-838c-71632d4625ef/2007BastaJCALYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Installations “Basta,” 2007. Yasmin Hernandez. Bieké: Tierra de Valientes series. Acrylic painting on military tent, Approx 10' x 8'. Chain link fencing cage, razor wire, found objects, sand, seashells. The debut of this installation was created for The Field, an exhibition featuring a selection of artists from the registry at the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, curated by Heng-Gil Han. Dedicated to Vieques, the painting is of Yaurel Figueroa, who was 9 years old at the time. I met him with his dad and uncle at an encampment in Vieques protesting the intended privatization of a local beach. His parents are peace and environmental justice activists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/447a16c3-0d3c-4b14-838c-71632d4625ef/2007BastaJCALYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Installations “Basta,” 2007. Yasmin Hernandez. Bieké: Tierra de Valientes series. Acrylic painting on military tent, Approx 10' x 8'. Chain link fencing cage, razor wire, found objects, sand, seashells. The debut of this installation was created for The Field, an exhibition featuring a selection of artists from the registry at the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, curated by Heng-Gil Han. Dedicated to Vieques, the painting is of Yaurel Figueroa, who was 9 years old at the time. I met him with his dad and uncle at an encampment in Vieques protesting the intended privatization of a local beach. His parents are peace and environmental justice activists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/eb92e9bf-2b3b-4abb-a622-0396971be4be/2007YasminHernandezArtsigndetailBasta.jpg Art - Installations Fence detail. “Basta,” 2007. Yasmin Hernandez. Bieké: Tierra de Valientes series. Acrylic painting on military tent, Approx 10' x 8'. Chain link fencing cage, razor wire, found objects, sand, seashells. The debut of this installation was created for The Field, an exhibition featuring a selection of artists from the registry at the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, curated by Heng-Gil Han. Dedicated to Vieques, the painting is of Yaurel Figueroa, who was 9 years old at the time. I met him with his dad and uncle at an encampment in Vieques protesting the intended privatization of a local beach. His parents are peace and environmental justice activists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/eb92e9bf-2b3b-4abb-a622-0396971be4be/2007YasminHernandezArtsigndetailBasta.jpg Art - Installations Fence detail. “Basta,” 2007. Yasmin Hernandez. Bieké: Tierra de Valientes series. Acrylic painting on military tent, Approx 10' x 8'. Chain link fencing cage, razor wire, found objects, sand, seashells. The debut of this installation was created for The Field, an exhibition featuring a selection of artists from the registry at the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, curated by Heng-Gil Han. Dedicated to Vieques, the painting is of Yaurel Figueroa, who was 9 years old at the time. I met him with his dad and uncle at an encampment in Vieques protesting the intended privatization of a local beach. His parents are peace and environmental justice activists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/d6c228b0-4f7f-42de-a6df-10ab09a363cb/2007YasminHernandezArt.Basta.fencedetail.jpg Art - Installations Fence detail. “Basta,” 2007. Yasmin Hernandez. Bieké: Tierra de Valientes series. Acrylic painting on military tent, Approx 10' x 8'. Chain link fencing cage, razor wire, found objects, sand, seashells. The debut of this installation was created for The Field, an exhibition featuring a selection of artists from the registry at the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, curated by Heng-Gil Han. Dedicated to Vieques, the painting is of Yaurel Figueroa, who was 9 years old at the time. I met him with his dad and uncle at an encampment in Vieques protesting the intended privatization of a local beach. His parents are peace and environmental justice activists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/d6c228b0-4f7f-42de-a6df-10ab09a363cb/2007YasminHernandezArt.Basta.fencedetail.jpg Art - Installations Fence detail. “Basta,” 2007. Yasmin Hernandez. Bieké: Tierra de Valientes series. Acrylic painting on military tent, Approx 10' x 8'. Chain link fencing cage, razor wire, found objects, sand, seashells. The debut of this installation was created for The Field, an exhibition featuring a selection of artists from the registry at the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, curated by Heng-Gil Han. Dedicated to Vieques, the painting is of Yaurel Figueroa, who was 9 years old at the time. I met him with his dad and uncle at an encampment in Vieques protesting the intended privatization of a local beach. His parents are peace and environmental justice activists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/2a383a95-1540-46a4-b52e-157dbedd7bfb/2007YasminHernandezArt.Bastasanddetail.jpg Art - Installations Sand detail. “Basta,” 2007. Yasmin Hernandez. Bieké: Tierra de Valientes series. Acrylic painting on military tent, Approx 10' x 8'. Chain link fencing cage, razor wire, found objects, sand, seashells. The debut of this installation was created for The Field, an exhibition featuring a selection of artists from the registry at the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, curated by Heng-Gil Han. Dedicated to Vieques, the painting is of Yaurel Figueroa, who was 9 years old at the time. I met him with his dad and uncle at an encampment in Vieques protesting the intended privatization of a local beach. His parents are peace and environmental justice activists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/2a383a95-1540-46a4-b52e-157dbedd7bfb/2007YasminHernandezArt.Bastasanddetail.jpg Art - Installations Sand detail. “Basta,” 2007. Yasmin Hernandez. Bieké: Tierra de Valientes series. Acrylic painting on military tent, Approx 10' x 8'. Chain link fencing cage, razor wire, found objects, sand, seashells. The debut of this installation was created for The Field, an exhibition featuring a selection of artists from the registry at the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, curated by Heng-Gil Han. Dedicated to Vieques, the painting is of Yaurel Figueroa, who was 9 years old at the time. I met him with his dad and uncle at an encampment in Vieques protesting the intended privatization of a local beach. His parents are peace and environmental justice activists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/55cdfebf-0043-433e-b55e-62a91661d5d2/UT+Yemaya.jpg Art - Installations “Yemaya” 2006. Yasmin Hernandez. Installation, Yoruba Art exhibit, ISESE Gallery, Center for African and African American Studies, University of Texas at Austin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/55cdfebf-0043-433e-b55e-62a91661d5d2/UT+Yemaya.jpg Art - Installations “Yemaya” 2006. Yasmin Hernandez. Installation, Yoruba Art exhibit, ISESE Gallery, Center for African and African American Studies, University of Texas at Austin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/38dfac48-19b3-49c3-ac78-97d5aa362c29/2006OchunUTAustinYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Installations “Miel de Abeja (Para Ochun)” 2006. Yoruba art exhibit, ISESE Gallery, Center for African and African American Studies, University of Texas, Austin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/38dfac48-19b3-49c3-ac78-97d5aa362c29/2006OchunUTAustinYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Installations “Miel de Abeja (Para Ochun)” 2006. Yoruba art exhibit, ISESE Gallery, Center for African and African American Studies, University of Texas, Austin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/179096eb-1c69-433b-aee6-f5c2d788d810/2006suenacaracolMAPRyasminhernandezart.jpg Art - Installations "Cuando suena el caracol" 2006. Yasmin Hernandez. El Museo's Bienal: The (S) Files at el Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico. A tribute to our jibaro past and a reclamation of jibaro culture in the present, it includes a portrait of Julia de Burgos and singer Andrés Jiménez, “el Jíbaro,” as part of my Soul Rebels series honoring revolutionary poets and musicians. This was the first time I painted on burlap as a commentary on the declining agricultural production in Puerto Rico, burlap or “saco” being associated with those who work the land and with Babalu Aye, orisha who guides over the ill and the poor. Puerto Rico imports 85% of what it consumes because of colonialism and the monocrop corporate farming imposed by US corporations. Thankfully many more Boricuas are reclaiming the land and farming independently. The conch shell and title reference Guadalupe Hidalgo's song "Ven Buscame a Lares" which speaks of the 1868 revolution for independence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/179096eb-1c69-433b-aee6-f5c2d788d810/2006suenacaracolMAPRyasminhernandezart.jpg Art - Installations "Cuando suena el caracol" 2006. Yasmin Hernandez. El Museo's Bienal: The (S) Files at el Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico. A tribute to our jibaro past and a reclamation of jibaro culture in the present, it includes a portrait of Julia de Burgos and singer Andrés Jiménez, “el Jíbaro,” as part of my Soul Rebels series honoring revolutionary poets and musicians. This was the first time I painted on burlap as a commentary on the declining agricultural production in Puerto Rico, burlap or “saco” being associated with those who work the land and with Babalu Aye, orisha who guides over the ill and the poor. Puerto Rico imports 85% of what it consumes because of colonialism and the monocrop corporate farming imposed by US corporations. Thankfully many more Boricuas are reclaiming the land and farming independently. The conch shell and title reference Guadalupe Hidalgo's song "Ven Buscame a Lares" which speaks of the 1868 revolution for independence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/fb36a5c6-dadd-4cd7-b38b-458279266e6f/2006YasminHernandezArt_Caracoldetail.jpg Art - Installations Detail, "Cuando suena el caracol" 2006. Yasmin Hernandez. El Museo's Bienal: The (S) Files at el Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico. A tribute to our jibaro past and a reclamation of jibaro culture in the present. Installation detail with sand, palms, banana leaf, machete, sugarcane, coconut, ñame, yuca, corn, higüera. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/fb36a5c6-dadd-4cd7-b38b-458279266e6f/2006YasminHernandezArt_Caracoldetail.jpg Art - Installations Detail, "Cuando suena el caracol" 2006. Yasmin Hernandez. El Museo's Bienal: The (S) Files at el Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico. A tribute to our jibaro past and a reclamation of jibaro culture in the present. Installation detail with sand, palms, banana leaf, machete, sugarcane, coconut, ñame, yuca, corn, higüera. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/cc120234-f01a-4bce-a285-9799aa0e5351/lobbyviewsoulrebels.slahoz.jpg Art - Installations “Soul Rebels” 2005. Yasmin Hernandez. Installation as part of El Museo’s Bienal: The (S) Files. El Museo del Barrio, East Harlem, NYC. 8 mixed media panels on Masonite, 76 x 19”. The Soul Rebels installation was in the lobby of the Heckscher Building before el Museo del barrio underwent its capital project to transform the lobby area and entrance to the museum. “Soul Rebels” is borrowed from the Bob Marley song. The installation was on view from September 2005 through the end of 2006. It is a series of revolutionary poets and musicians of influence to the East and West Harlem communities. Photo: Sam Lahoz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/cc120234-f01a-4bce-a285-9799aa0e5351/lobbyviewsoulrebels.slahoz.jpg Art - Installations “Soul Rebels” 2005. Yasmin Hernandez. Installation as part of El Museo’s Bienal: The (S) Files. El Museo del Barrio, East Harlem, NYC. 8 mixed media panels on Masonite, 76 x 19”. The Soul Rebels installation was in the lobby of the Heckscher Building before el Museo del barrio underwent its capital project to transform the lobby area and entrance to the museum. “Soul Rebels” is borrowed from the Bob Marley song. The installation was on view from September 2005 through the end of 2006. It is a series of revolutionary poets and musicians of influence to the East and West Harlem communities. Photo: Sam Lahoz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/67251777-a7dd-4b3a-9696-88b6fecf0d51/soulrebels1.4.jpg Art - Installations Detail, Four of the Soul Rebels panels, L-R: Julia de Burgos, Piri Thomas, Eddie Palmieri, Pedro Pietri. “Soul Rebels” 2005. Yasmin Hernandez. Installation as part of el El Museo’s Bienal: The (S) Files. El Museo del Barrio, East Harlem, NYC. 8 mixed media panels on Masonite, 76 x 19”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/67251777-a7dd-4b3a-9696-88b6fecf0d51/soulrebels1.4.jpg Art - Installations Detail, Four of the Soul Rebels panels, L-R: Julia de Burgos, Piri Thomas, Eddie Palmieri, Pedro Pietri. “Soul Rebels” 2005. Yasmin Hernandez. Installation as part of el El Museo’s Bienal: The (S) Files. El Museo del Barrio, East Harlem, NYC. 8 mixed media panels on Masonite, 76 x 19”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/b26d81f0-eb55-4160-b846-dc56676dc25b/julia.piri.jpg Art - Installations Detail of poet portraits "Despierta" (Soul Rebel: Julia de Burgos) and "Bright Puerto Rican Red" (Soul Rebel: Piri Thomas). “Soul Rebels” 2005. Yasmin Hernandez. Installation as part of el El Museo’s Bienal: The (S) Files. El Museo del Barrio, East Harlem, NYC. 8 mixed media panels on Masonite, 76 x 19”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/b26d81f0-eb55-4160-b846-dc56676dc25b/julia.piri.jpg Art - Installations Detail of poet portraits "Despierta" (Soul Rebel: Julia de Burgos) and "Bright Puerto Rican Red" (Soul Rebel: Piri Thomas). “Soul Rebels” 2005. Yasmin Hernandez. Installation as part of el El Museo’s Bienal: The (S) Files. El Museo del Barrio, East Harlem, NYC. 8 mixed media panels on Masonite, 76 x 19”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/a8f5d063-4ae4-4d05-bee9-e879d610199c/11.YasminHernandezart.soulrebels.Photo.JohnJames.05.jpg Art - Installations Yasmin Hernandez alongside her “Soul Rebels” panels of musicians Fela Kuti (Nigeria) and Bob Marley (Jamaica). Photo: John James. “Soul Rebels” 2005. Yasmin Hernandez. Installation as part of el El Museo’s Bienal: The (S) Files. El Museo del Barrio, East Harlem, NYC. 8 mixed media panels on Masonite, 76 x 19”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/a8f5d063-4ae4-4d05-bee9-e879d610199c/11.YasminHernandezart.soulrebels.Photo.JohnJames.05.jpg Art - Installations Yasmin Hernandez alongside her “Soul Rebels” panels of musicians Fela Kuti (Nigeria) and Bob Marley (Jamaica). Photo: John James. “Soul Rebels” 2005. Yasmin Hernandez. Installation as part of el El Museo’s Bienal: The (S) Files. El Museo del Barrio, East Harlem, NYC. 8 mixed media panels on Masonite, 76 x 19”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/f31afdc9-4b7c-4ca2-861d-8703297d3867/10.YasminHernandezArt_Dylcia_EddiePalmieri.jpg Art - Installations The first four panels were installed in time for the opening of El Museo's the (S) Files in 2005. The remaining four panels were installed in October of that year and so a separate reception was held. Our surprise guest of honor was featured Soul Rebel, legendary musician, Eddie Palmieri. Here my husband and I stand alongside Eddie and his portrait and my mentor, dear friend, now beloved ancestor, Puerto Rican Freedom Fighter Dylcia Pagan. Eternal gratitude to Young Lord Mickey Melendez for coordinating the visit from Eddie Palmieri! “Soul Rebels” 2005. Yasmin Hernandez. Installation as part of el El Museo’s Bienal: The (S) Files. El Museo del Barrio, East Harlem, NYC. 8 mixed media panels on Masonite, 76 x 19”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/f31afdc9-4b7c-4ca2-861d-8703297d3867/10.YasminHernandezArt_Dylcia_EddiePalmieri.jpg Art - Installations The first four panels were installed in time for the opening of El Museo's the (S) Files in 2005. The remaining four panels were installed in October of that year and so a separate reception was held. Our surprise guest of honor was featured Soul Rebel, legendary musician, Eddie Palmieri. Here my husband and I stand alongside Eddie and his portrait and my mentor, dear friend, now beloved ancestor, Puerto Rican Freedom Fighter Dylcia Pagan. Eternal gratitude to Young Lord Mickey Melendez for coordinating the visit from Eddie Palmieri! “Soul Rebels” 2005. Yasmin Hernandez. Installation as part of el El Museo’s Bienal: The (S) Files. El Museo del Barrio, East Harlem, NYC. 8 mixed media panels on Masonite, 76 x 19”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/e6138f18-235c-411e-8189-9dcd3312b315/patrias.jpg Art - Installations “Mamita” 2004. Yasmin Hernandez. Mixed media installation at Patrias, Park Slope Brooklyn. Dedicated to my mother-in-law who passed from cancer in 2001. The altar includes traditional foods and artesanía from her native Colombia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/e6138f18-235c-411e-8189-9dcd3312b315/patrias.jpg Art - Installations “Mamita” 2004. Yasmin Hernandez. Mixed media installation at Patrias, Park Slope Brooklyn. Dedicated to my mother-in-law who passed from cancer in 2001. The altar includes traditional foods and artesanía from her native Colombia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/4f60306c-3251-4371-88ec-06e16bcb7352/2004MamitaInstallYasminHernandez.jpg Art - Installations “Mamita” 2004. Yasmin Hernandez. Mixed media installation at Patrias, Park Slope Brooklyn. Dedicated to my mother-in-law who passed from cancer in 2001. The altar includes traditional foods and artesanía from her native Colombia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/4f60306c-3251-4371-88ec-06e16bcb7352/2004MamitaInstallYasminHernandez.jpg Art - Installations “Mamita” 2004. Yasmin Hernandez. Mixed media installation at Patrias, Park Slope Brooklyn. Dedicated to my mother-in-law who passed from cancer in 2001. The altar includes traditional foods and artesanía from her native Colombia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/aac8d2fd-00b3-4f77-8d62-5823ad2f29eb/2004MamitaAltardetail.YasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Installations Detail with candles, flowers, photos, chivitas, casitas, can of Colombiana, buñuelo, empanadas and pan de queso, favorites representing my mother-in-law's Colombian culture. “Mamita” 2004. Yasmin Hernandez. Mixed media installation at Patrias, Park Slope Brooklyn. Dedicated to my mother-in-law who passed from cancer in 2001. The altar includes traditional foods and artesanía from her native Colombia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/aac8d2fd-00b3-4f77-8d62-5823ad2f29eb/2004MamitaAltardetail.YasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Installations Detail with candles, flowers, photos, chivitas, casitas, can of Colombiana, buñuelo, empanadas and pan de queso, favorites representing my mother-in-law's Colombian culture. “Mamita” 2004. Yasmin Hernandez. Mixed media installation at Patrias, Park Slope Brooklyn. Dedicated to my mother-in-law who passed from cancer in 2001. The altar includes traditional foods and artesanía from her native Colombia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/51cca2f0-2086-495a-8e0b-4ae73b73dc69/gdsesfrontrt.jpg Art - Installations “Goddesses” 2003. Yasmin Hernandez. Installation at the 4th Encuentro, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. Kimmel Center, New York York University. New York, NY. This installation is a tribute to the divine feminine and to mothers. It and includes four portraits and altars of sister Yoruba goddesses Yemaya y Ochun and portraits of my mother and mother-in-law. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/51cca2f0-2086-495a-8e0b-4ae73b73dc69/gdsesfrontrt.jpg Art - Installations “Goddesses” 2003. Yasmin Hernandez. Installation at the 4th Encuentro, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. Kimmel Center, New York York University. New York, NY. This installation is a tribute to the divine feminine and to mothers. It and includes four portraits and altars of sister Yoruba goddesses Yemaya y Ochun and portraits of my mother and mother-in-law. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/929b55ff-f05f-403d-8813-9bd33f214ff7/gdsesfrontview.jpg Art - Installations “Goddesses” 2003. Yasmin Hernandez. Installation at the 4th Encuentro, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. Kimmel Center, New York York University. New York, NY. This installation is a tribute to the divine feminine and to mothers. It and includes four portraits and altars of sister Yoruba goddesses Yemaya y Ochun and portraits of my mother and mother-in-law. detail, Yemaya and Oshun installations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/929b55ff-f05f-403d-8813-9bd33f214ff7/gdsesfrontview.jpg Art - Installations “Goddesses” 2003. Yasmin Hernandez. Installation at the 4th Encuentro, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. Kimmel Center, New York York University. New York, NY. This installation is a tribute to the divine feminine and to mothers. It and includes four portraits and altars of sister Yoruba goddesses Yemaya y Ochun and portraits of my mother and mother-in-law. detail, Yemaya and Oshun installations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/f0ecc5a3-6abc-4737-af71-3c76f3658cc5/goddessesleft.jpg Art - Installations “Goddesses” 2003. Yasmin Hernandez. Installation at the 4th Encuentro, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. Kimmel Center, New York York University. New York, NY. This installation is a tribute to the divine feminine and to mothers. It and includes four portraits and altars of sister Yoruba goddesses Yemaya y Ochun and portraits of my mother and mother-in-law. detail, Yemaya and Oshun installations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/f0ecc5a3-6abc-4737-af71-3c76f3658cc5/goddessesleft.jpg Art - Installations “Goddesses” 2003. Yasmin Hernandez. Installation at the 4th Encuentro, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. Kimmel Center, New York York University. New York, NY. This installation is a tribute to the divine feminine and to mothers. It and includes four portraits and altars of sister Yoruba goddesses Yemaya y Ochun and portraits of my mother and mother-in-law. detail, Yemaya and Oshun installations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/d7600263-bc53-4eae-b4dc-ffb03f38360e/2000almaboricuaYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Installations “Alma Boricua” 2000. Yasmin Hernandez. Installation at the Cornell Council for the Arts, Invitational Exhibition. Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. This installation is a tribute and exploration of Boricua/ Caribbean heritage via our spirituality. In the center is the indigenous fertility goddess Atabey. At her sides are Yoruba goddess Yemaya, and La Virgen de Regla. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/d7600263-bc53-4eae-b4dc-ffb03f38360e/2000almaboricuaYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Installations “Alma Boricua” 2000. Yasmin Hernandez. Installation at the Cornell Council for the Arts, Invitational Exhibition. Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. This installation is a tribute and exploration of Boricua/ Caribbean heritage via our spirituality. In the center is the indigenous fertility goddess Atabey. At her sides are Yoruba goddess Yemaya, and La Virgen de Regla. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/5d20fc1f-b0ba-4f97-a335-e71ce5bf5c29/2000bohioYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Installations Bohío detail. “Alma Boricua” 2000. Yasmin Hernandez. Installation at the Cornell Council for the Arts, Invitational Exhibition. Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. This installation is a tribute and exploration of Boricua/ Caribbean heritage via our spirituality. In the center is the indigenous fertility goddess Atabey. At her sides are Yoruba goddess Yemaya, and La Virgen de Regla. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/5d20fc1f-b0ba-4f97-a335-e71ce5bf5c29/2000bohioYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Installations Bohío detail. “Alma Boricua” 2000. Yasmin Hernandez. Installation at the Cornell Council for the Arts, Invitational Exhibition. Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. This installation is a tribute and exploration of Boricua/ Caribbean heritage via our spirituality. In the center is the indigenous fertility goddess Atabey. At her sides are Yoruba goddess Yemaya, and La Virgen de Regla. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/d121ab0a-8acd-40b3-bb7f-b4aed7f5a40e/1999asesuinstallYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Installations “Yemaya Asesu” 1999. Yasmin Hernandez. Installation at the Onaní: The African Presence in Latin American Art at Taller Puertorriqueño, Inc. in Philadelphia. This was my first installation dedicated to Yoruba sea goddess Yemaya, created in collaboration with my cousin Omar. I experienced my first magic through art when the gallery flooded and created a sea, complete with waves on the sloping floor that crashed and receded into the sand at the foot of this installation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/d121ab0a-8acd-40b3-bb7f-b4aed7f5a40e/1999asesuinstallYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Installations “Yemaya Asesu” 1999. Yasmin Hernandez. Installation at the Onaní: The African Presence in Latin American Art at Taller Puertorriqueño, Inc. in Philadelphia. This was my first installation dedicated to Yoruba sea goddess Yemaya, created in collaboration with my cousin Omar. I experienced my first magic through art when the gallery flooded and created a sea, complete with waves on the sloping floor that crashed and receded into the sand at the foot of this installation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/75d21d8c-e1e3-4afe-85f4-4fc1b05dea5a/1997poncemassacreInstallYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Installations “Ponce Massacre” 1997, Yasmin Hernandez. Hartell Gallery. Cornell University. Oil/ collage on canvas, 51" x 34", fabric, flowers, candle. This first installation of The Ponce Massacre was part of my BFA Thesis project. The Ponce Massacre took place in 1937 Ponce, Puerto Rico, my parents' hometown. The US colonial police chief revoked a parade permit on Palm Sunday commemorating the abolition of slavery. When the people marched anyway, the police opened fire on them killing 21 and wounding around 200. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/75d21d8c-e1e3-4afe-85f4-4fc1b05dea5a/1997poncemassacreInstallYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Installations “Ponce Massacre” 1997, Yasmin Hernandez. Hartell Gallery. Cornell University. Oil/ collage on canvas, 51" x 34", fabric, flowers, candle. This first installation of The Ponce Massacre was part of my BFA Thesis project. The Ponce Massacre took place in 1937 Ponce, Puerto Rico, my parents' hometown. The US colonial police chief revoked a parade permit on Palm Sunday commemorating the abolition of slavery. When the people marched anyway, the police opened fire on them killing 21 and wounding around 200. https://yasminhernandez.art/art/commissions monthly 0.5 2025-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/436f05a0-aed7-404f-a17e-8ae7a5e1780b/2016YasminHernandezArt_dBMML_Dreamer.jpg Art - Commissions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/35bfa84b-892f-4bf2-b783-514fb318d713/JuliaReflexiona_YasminHernandezArt2020_72wm.jpg Art - Commissions "Julia de Burgos Reflexiona," 2020. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on board, 20 x 16 inches. Commissioned for the Women's Empowerment Draft of Art Force Five, Alfred University, Alfred, NY. This portrait of Puerto Rican Poet Julia de Burgos was reproduced on trading cards and jerseys as tribute to a series of powerful women and in commemoration of the 19th amendment in the US, which finally granted women the right to vote. See link below for details. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/df615e28-9b21-47e4-b2fc-13a1264064c7/2024ElCucubanoSupremo.YasminHernandez.web..jpg Art - Commissions “El Cucubano Supremo”, 2024. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic paint and gold ink on canvas. 24 x 20”. Commissioned by Clemente Robles and Yadira Alejandro. This portrait of Ramón Emeterio Betances was created in the aesthetics of my CucubaNación project, as a follow up to my portrait of Puerto Rican freedom fighter Rafael Cancel Miranda. Both channel the light of our beloved cucubanos, bioluminescent click beetles, to envision our freedom fighter ancestors. The gold hurricane symbols mimic the movement of the bioluminescent light spheres. Betances was a 19th century Puerto Rican and Dominican physician, revolutionary and abolitionist who authored the 1868 Grito de Lares Revolution. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/19d8ba49-edbb-49f7-8ee9-06a8dec6204e/2016YasminHernandezArt_dBMML_Ancestors.jpg Art - Commissions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/49cee8bb-7c3e-4fb9-9ad6-d37a332b77ea/2015YasminHernandezArtSomosMuchos.jpg Art - Commissions “Somos Muchos” 2015 (Oscar López Rivera) Yasmin Hernandez. Mixed media on canvas, 30" x 24". Commissioned for the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez’ conference, Luchas de Ayer, Ahora y Siempre (?) on Puerto Rican political prisoners past and present. Oscar López Rivera is presented among a selection of ancestors who sacrificed their lives for the liberation of Puerto Rico. Within his portrait we see a selection of the comrades who, like him, have served as political prisoners for wanting the freedom of their country. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/d1f4dfd9-c35e-41ef-8f71-dfa03e5d15a8/WaterProtectors_YasminHernandezArt2018_wm.jpg Art - Commissions “Water Protectors” 2018. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on canvas, 25 x 48”. Commissioned by Thelvia Bonano Scarlett, Jacksonville, FL. Water Protectors borrows from my nebula series inspired by my Boricua ancestors and bioluminescence in our waters, to envision buffalo within the Standing Rock landscape as bioluminescent spirit warriors protecting the water that flows across these lands. Red and blue are references to hydrogen, oxygen in our bodies, our water, the cosmos. The creation of this work was delayed after we were left with no light and water following Hurricane Irma. I let Thelvia know that I would need more time, never anticipating the passing of Hurricane Maria two weeks later which left us with no electricity for over four months. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/df92c3a3-d153-4fe3-9b7d-df8be230dc8d/2013_YasminHernandezArt_BorikenAye.jpg Art - Commissions “Boriken Aye” 2012. Yasmin Hernandez. Mixed media on paper, 33" x 22". This work was commission as the poster image for the Puerto Rican Studies Association 20th anniversary conference, same year that I was the featured artist. The image borrows the seashell from the indigenous fotuto and the Yoruba Eshu Aye to celebrate the Puerto Rican Diaspora as part of the African and other Diasporas. Featuring quotes by Julia de Burgos, Martin Espada and Aurora Levin Morales. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/2a00c9a5-6491-4e5b-973c-cd2066b5b082/2016YasminHernandezArt_dBMML_OleCaney.jpg Art - Commissions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/1e2281fb-a175-4df5-abb6-de442aebd050/danceofgypsies.wm.YasminHernandezArt.2013.jpg Art - Commissions “Dance of Gypsies,” 2013. Yasmin Hernandez. Oils, Acrylic and mirrors on canvas, 36" x 24". This commission came from Tanesha Rogers an incredible soul sent by Yemaya via cyber space. She came into my life when my brother passed from cancer & her mother had just been diagnosed. After her mom's transition she asked that I paint a tribute to her mother and shared the beautiful words featured in the work: Her smile was a royal queen and her laugh was the dance of gypsies; Teeth bright like shiny tambourines shaken by the ministers of laughing rhythms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/95be501d-7ff4-48dd-954a-44795aa6ad90/2016YasminHernandezArt_dBMML_GranNana.jpg Art - Commissions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/6b0444a0-6a15-4a92-8525-49ffef84c8c1/2007YasminHernandezArt.carpetaPantoja.jpg Art - Commissions “Antonia Pantoja” 2008. Yasmin Hernandez. Mixed media on canvas, 30" x 24". Commissioned by Lillian Jimenez, creator of the documentary Antonia Pantoja : ¡Presente! Antonia Pantoja was the fierce educator, activist who revolutionized the experience of Puerto Rican and Latino students in New York and in the US when she fought for bilingual education and created the student organization Aspira. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/d02493bd-ece3-4db4-82af-80ad299ad739/2016YasminHernandezArt_dBMML_MissKitty.jpg Art - Commissions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/13fc980e-0804-4f56-9b87-166d123e2e73/2007_122bobsbizu.jpg Art - Commissions “Pedro Albizu Campos” 2008. Yasmin Hernandez. Mixed media on canvas, 24" x 18". Commissioned by legendary DJ/ sports announcer/ filmmaker/ author/ friend Bobbito Garcia. He commissioned a portrait of Pedro Albizu Campos because his image reminds him of his father. This was done in the style of my Archivos Subversivos of that same year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/59f7daf2-20cc-4a75-b62d-12b059036286/2016YasminHernandezArt_dBMML_David.jpg Art - Commissions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/1735225921369-YWY54LKT70KDR2WSBMXI/2003Obatala.yasmin.hernandezart.jpg Art - Commissions “Obatala” 2003. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on canvas, 36" x 18". Commissioned by Alex Ulanov. Portrait of the Yoruba orisha of peace, wisdom and creativity, Obatala. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/15e596c4-c307-4fdb-a1a4-11e38dbcf0cd/2016YasminHernandezArt_dBMML.jpg Art - Commissions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/b0ab891f-be11-49ef-876c-80e95fdd2b99/atabecblue%2Byellow.jpg Art - Commissions “Atabex (Blue and Yellow)” 2003. Yasmin Hernandez. Oil on canvas, 24" x 18”. Commissioned by one of the earliest supporters of my work, Francis Acevedo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/9abda06e-368d-440b-9155-e9faf0165dd7/2016YasminHernandezArt_dBMML_SweetieJr.jpg Art - Commissions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/631b0c20-ec7e-4be5-ab18-3a673fc756f3/2016YasminHernandezArt_dBMML_Honeypot.jpg Art - Commissions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/5a42e8f1-708e-41fd-9a91-3bb599629473/2016YasminHernandezArt_dBMML_AncestorsSelfLove.jpg Art - Commissions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/065a5df1-64dc-45f6-aac3-274d971eb321/2005YasminHernandezArt_UnFuerteAbrazo.FGLI.jpg Art - Commissions “Un Fuerte Abrazo” 2008. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic, collage on watercolor paper. 15” x 11”. Commissioned by the Funders for Gay and Lesbian Issues, New York, NY. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/811928e0-7965-4423-9f28-7c07e5b3e4b9/2005YasminHernandezArt_WPRhymes4Treason.jpg Art - Commissions “Rhymes for Treason”, 2005. Yasmin Hernandez. Commissioned by the New York City-based Spoken Word/ Hip Hop group The Welfare Poets as the cover for their album Rhymes for Treason. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/cff5e3ff-d2ff-4267-b834-11804e30562c/2005YasminHernandezArt_WPMalcolm.jpg Art - Commissions “Malcolm” 2005. Yasmin Hernandez. Portrait of Malcolm X commissioned by the New York City-based Spoken Word/ Hip Hop group The Welfare Poets as the back cover for their album Rhymes for Treason. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/4ce54452-7f43-4307-a932-62978fadc2bb/2006OneLove.yasminhernandezArt.jpg Art - Commissions “One Love”, 2005. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic, collage on watercolor paper. Commissioned by the Funders for Gay and Lesbian Issues, New York, NY, for the cover of a report on a study of international philanthropy/ activism around LGBTQ issues. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/a51cf1f4-4018-4e8e-baa4-5bef6b0101f7/2005YasminHernandezArt_playatyourownrisk.jpg Art - Commissions “Play at Your Own Risk” 2005. Yasmin Hernandez. Mixed media on paper, approx 32" x 27". Commissioned for the book On My Block, by Children's Book Press. This publication compiles the art and words of 15 artists reminiscing on what it was to grow up on our block, and a glance back to our childhood. I pay tribute to our street in Park Slope, Brooklyn and to my brother. He collaborated with me on this piece in the graffiti. Play At Your Own Risk is a song from our youth by Planet Patrol. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/8ed4f60e-977a-428b-ba00-e2341d1d8212/2003YasminHernandezArt_YemayaY+Ochun.jpg Art - Commissions “Yemaya y Ochun”, 2003. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on watercolor paper, 15" x 11". Collection of Liliana Polo. This image was commissioned by New York Spanish-language newspaper El Diario/ La Prensa for their 2003 Women's Month Distinguished Latinas celebration. I was selected as an honoree the following year. This image honors women through the solidarity of sister orishas of femininity, motherhood, fertility and love, Yemaya & Ochun, within a women's torso. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/2aebe520-0e90-4d3d-9695-d0994f14fbd2/2002bombabatey_YasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Commissions “Bomba y plena de la Playa al Batey,” 2002. Acrylic on watercolor paper, 15" x 11". Commissioned by El Diario la Prensa for a Puerto Rican heritage month celebration, this work takes the coastal African traditions of Puerto Rico and places them in the indigenous community center, the batey, connecting one aspect of our ancestry with another. Inspired by the Caguana Ceremonial Park in Utuado. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/5108df48-5650-4122-8b0e-83b90331bcb6/1999YasminHernandezArt_Schomburg.jpg Art - Commissions “Arturo Schomburg & the Diaspora,” 1998. Graphite on paper, 10" x 8". This image was commissioned for the Arturo Schomburg Symposium in Philadelphia. The theme of the conference that year was spirituality in the Diaspora. The image takes Afro Boricua Black Studies hero, Arthur Schomburg, and places him within the Diaspora at the crossroads of the evolution and syncretism between Santa Barbara and Shango to Chango, orisha of fire, masculinity, passion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/b006b65a-4b43-4c91-9621-201f90d70105/2003Abriendo++Caminos_YasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Commissions “Abriendo Caminos,” 2003. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on watercolor paper, 11" x 15". Collection of Michigan State University, Office of Racial & Ethnic Affairs. Selected as the poster image for the Día de la Mujer Conference, 2003 at Michigan State University. This image honors the roots of collegiate Latinas from our work on the fields, paving paths towards careers in various cities while always marching towards the pyramids and the sun representing our heritage. https://yasminhernandez.art/art/divine-feminine monthly 0.5 2025-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/63564033-7fa3-43c9-987e-14de500e8f5a/LuisaCosmica_YasminHernandezArt_2004_wtrm.jpg Art - Divine Feminine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/63564033-7fa3-43c9-987e-14de500e8f5a/LuisaCosmica_YasminHernandezArt_2004_wtrm.jpg Art - Divine Feminine "Luisa Cósmica" 2022. Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 24 inches. "Existirá el libre cambio pues estarán abolidas las fronteras y la verdadera Libertad reinará en este planeta. Procura tu ayudar con la práctica a la realización de estas..." (Free exchange would exist as borders would be abolished and true liberation would reign on this planet. Seek to help with the practice of realizing these...) Luisa Capetillo was a Puerto Rican labor organizer, writer, activist, anarchist and espiritista. She wrote Puerto Rico's first feminist text in 1911, Mi Opinion sobre las libertades, derechos y deberes de la mujer. History most remembers her for wearing pants and being arrested for doing so but the depths and breadth of her writing, which was eons before its time, is her greatest achievement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/1748134243402-CDXYWFH012VQXO0R1WJE/AlexaSylviaSalvation_YasminHernandezArt2020sm.jpg Art - Divine Feminine For International Women’s Day I completed this work, titled just as I saw it: “I Saw Alexa in a Bioluminescent Boricua Blue Heaven of Sylvia Rivera Salvation” 2020, Acrylic on Canvas, 18x24, Distraught by the news of Alexa’s murder here in Puerto Rico, I decided to sit, meditate, offer light in any way I could. Then I saw it. I saw bad ass, fierce Boricua goddess/ Stonewall Warrior Sylvia Rivera receiving Alexa on the other side. The bioluminescent waters of our magical homelands, of our ancestors, our cemies and orishas, healing, welcoming, illuminating. A young, murdered transwoman, arriving to the spirit of a trans human rights activist: fierce, protecting, inspiring. Each of Boricua blood, representing each side of el charco, its fluid, collective wisdom surrounding them, healing them. This is what we all must channel. The binary, like the two sides of el charco, are divisive. El charco calls us to embrace the power of fluidity, wherein lies the healing, liberatory power of collective wisdom and transcendent womanhood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/1748134243402-CDXYWFH012VQXO0R1WJE/AlexaSylviaSalvation_YasminHernandezArt2020sm.jpg Art - Divine Feminine For International Women’s Day I completed this work, titled just as I saw it: “I Saw Alexa in a Bioluminescent Boricua Blue Heaven of Sylvia Rivera Salvation” 2020, Acrylic on Canvas, 18x24, Distraught by the news of Alexa’s murder here in Puerto Rico, I decided to sit, meditate, offer light in any way I could. Then I saw it. I saw bad ass, fierce Boricua goddess/ Stonewall Warrior Sylvia Rivera receiving Alexa on the other side. The bioluminescent waters of our magical homelands, of our ancestors, our cemies and orishas, healing, welcoming, illuminating. A young, murdered transwoman, arriving to the spirit of a trans human rights activist: fierce, protecting, inspiring. Each of Boricua blood, representing each side of el charco, its fluid, collective wisdom surrounding them, healing them. This is what we all must channel. The binary, like the two sides of el charco, are divisive. El charco calls us to embrace the power of fluidity, wherein lies the healing, liberatory power of collective wisdom and transcendent womanhood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/b481afd8-40e7-4655-8bad-3487fc1e419c/CucubaNacionNinaDroz_YasminHernandezArt_2019.jpg Art - Divine Feminine "Amante de la libertad (Nina Droz Franco)" 2019, acrylic on canvas, 24”x18.” Portrait of the recently released Puerto Rican political prisoner Nina Droz Franco, as a firefly channeling the warrior spirit of the indigenous ancestors of these lands. Nina was arrested at the protests against the colonial debt and severe austerity measures on May Day 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/b481afd8-40e7-4655-8bad-3487fc1e419c/CucubaNacionNinaDroz_YasminHernandezArt_2019.jpg Art - Divine Feminine "Amante de la libertad (Nina Droz Franco)" 2019, acrylic on canvas, 24”x18.” Portrait of the recently released Puerto Rican political prisoner Nina Droz Franco, as a firefly channeling the warrior spirit of the indigenous ancestors of these lands. Nina was arrested at the protests against the colonial debt and severe austerity measures on May Day 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/35bfa84b-892f-4bf2-b783-514fb318d713/JuliaReflexiona_YasminHernandezArt2020_72wm.jpg Art - Divine Feminine "Julia de Burgos reflexiona," 2020 Commissioned for the Women's Empowerment Draft of Art Force Five, Alfred University, Alfred, NY. Portrait of Puerto Rican Poet Julia de Burgos was reproduced on trading cards and jerseys as part of a tribute to a series of powerful women. Acrylic on board 20 x 16 inches See link below for details. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/35bfa84b-892f-4bf2-b783-514fb318d713/JuliaReflexiona_YasminHernandezArt2020_72wm.jpg Art - Divine Feminine "Julia de Burgos reflexiona," 2020 Commissioned for the Women's Empowerment Draft of Art Force Five, Alfred University, Alfred, NY. Portrait of Puerto Rican Poet Julia de Burgos was reproduced on trading cards and jerseys as part of a tribute to a series of powerful women. Acrylic on board 20 x 16 inches See link below for details. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/58ce5d0c-38dd-4575-9933-bb8750191c83/YasminHernandez_LuzQueMeAlumbra.jpg Art - Divine Feminine "La luz que me alumbra" 2019 (The light that illuminates me) Acylic on canvas, 24" x 30" In this self-portrait with my mother I consider the glow of fireflies in the same way I work with nebulas to represent spirit energy. Thinking to myself that I needed a title for this piece, a few minutes later the song I was listening to, “Soy Canastero”, a bulería by Diego Cigala sang “tu eres la luz que me alumbra” (you are the light that illuminates me). The green glow then represents a synergy between my mother’s and my own spirit energy and how we use this light to fuel and lift one another. I painted my mother in a form inspired by Taíno mother goddess Atabey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/58ce5d0c-38dd-4575-9933-bb8750191c83/YasminHernandez_LuzQueMeAlumbra.jpg Art - Divine Feminine "La luz que me alumbra" 2019 (The light that illuminates me) Acylic on canvas, 24" x 30" In this self-portrait with my mother I consider the glow of fireflies in the same way I work with nebulas to represent spirit energy. Thinking to myself that I needed a title for this piece, a few minutes later the song I was listening to, “Soy Canastero”, a bulería by Diego Cigala sang “tu eres la luz que me alumbra” (you are the light that illuminates me). The green glow then represents a synergy between my mother’s and my own spirit energy and how we use this light to fuel and lift one another. I painted my mother in a form inspired by Taíno mother goddess Atabey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/39c532ad-83a2-40e8-ad30-b9360e168f04/CucubaNacion_YasminHernandezArt_LolitaLuna_2019.jpg Art - Divine Feminine "Ya yo vi la luna" 2019, Acrylic on canvas, 14 x 18” I started this piece on March 1st, 2018, when the full moon coincided with the anniversary of the mission Lolita Lebron led in Washington that date in 1954 to protest US colonialism in Puerto Rico. Lolita served 25 years is US federal prisons as a result. I didn’t finish the piece until November 2019 when we commemorated the centennial of Lolita’s birth. It includes a quote from Lolita's interview with Dr. Consuelo Martinez-Reyes. “Ya yo vi la luna: la última entrevista a Lolita Lebrón." Contemplating her transition at over 90 years old she said “I will be able to better appreciate the air, the stars, the sun. I have already seen the moon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/39c532ad-83a2-40e8-ad30-b9360e168f04/CucubaNacion_YasminHernandezArt_LolitaLuna_2019.jpg Art - Divine Feminine "Ya yo vi la luna" 2019, Acrylic on canvas, 14 x 18” I started this piece on March 1st, 2018, when the full moon coincided with the anniversary of the mission Lolita Lebron led in Washington that date in 1954 to protest US colonialism in Puerto Rico. Lolita served 25 years is US federal prisons as a result. I didn’t finish the piece until November 2019 when we commemorated the centennial of Lolita’s birth. It includes a quote from Lolita's interview with Dr. Consuelo Martinez-Reyes. “Ya yo vi la luna: la última entrevista a Lolita Lebrón." Contemplating her transition at over 90 years old she said “I will be able to better appreciate the air, the stars, the sun. I have already seen the moon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/044119fe-ec74-4eff-8b59-476b83560287/CucubaNacionHermandad_Bioluminiscente2018_YasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Divine Feminine "Hermandad Bioluminiscente" (Julia de Burgos y Consuelo) 2018. Acrylic on Canvas. 30"x24". This portrait of legendary Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos (on the right) and her sister Consuelo chronicles their love across waters with excerpts of letters Julia would write to Consuelo and of her poems. “Looking at you is seeing myself whole in light, rolling in blue.” Their inter-ocean sisterhood between New York and Puerto Rico reminds me of my own experience having most of my family in New York or Jersey while I am in Puerto Rico, and of the many families of the Caribbean islands and coastal communities displaced by the storms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/044119fe-ec74-4eff-8b59-476b83560287/CucubaNacionHermandad_Bioluminiscente2018_YasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Divine Feminine "Hermandad Bioluminiscente" (Julia de Burgos y Consuelo) 2018. Acrylic on Canvas. 30"x24". This portrait of legendary Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos (on the right) and her sister Consuelo chronicles their love across waters with excerpts of letters Julia would write to Consuelo and of her poems. “Looking at you is seeing myself whole in light, rolling in blue.” Their inter-ocean sisterhood between New York and Puerto Rico reminds me of my own experience having most of my family in New York or Jersey while I am in Puerto Rico, and of the many families of the Caribbean islands and coastal communities displaced by the storms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/580cde2c-2a21-4bf9-bcf7-a81fb5e0d93c/YasminHernandezArt_lasmaravillosashuerteritas.jpg Art - Divine Feminine "Las Maravillosas Huerteritas," 2018 Acrylic on black fabric 8' x 4' Lyric excerpts by Digable Planets (I’m interplanetary/ My insect movements vary.... Peace be the greeting of the insect tribe). El Maravillos Huerto de los Niños (The Wonderful Children’s Garden) was started by my friend Lin Benitez in Vega Baja, Puerto Rico after her community experienced seven months of no lights following the storms. Their school was used as a shelter, so for many months the children roamed bored around the community. Lin manages the collection of donated tools and seeds from various sources and leads the children in the planting and harvest of herbs, fruits and vegetables with the children. The lyrics from Digable Planets speak to the transcendence and love ethic they found inspired by insects, which I use as a metaphor here for the work in this community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/580cde2c-2a21-4bf9-bcf7-a81fb5e0d93c/YasminHernandezArt_lasmaravillosashuerteritas.jpg Art - Divine Feminine "Las Maravillosas Huerteritas," 2018 Acrylic on black fabric 8' x 4' Lyric excerpts by Digable Planets (I’m interplanetary/ My insect movements vary.... Peace be the greeting of the insect tribe). El Maravillos Huerto de los Niños (The Wonderful Children’s Garden) was started by my friend Lin Benitez in Vega Baja, Puerto Rico after her community experienced seven months of no lights following the storms. Their school was used as a shelter, so for many months the children roamed bored around the community. Lin manages the collection of donated tools and seeds from various sources and leads the children in the planting and harvest of herbs, fruits and vegetables with the children. The lyrics from Digable Planets speak to the transcendence and love ethic they found inspired by insects, which I use as a metaphor here for the work in this community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/bbdef683-7b49-41f0-a4c7-ab7e86515491/AtabexKarayaYasminHernandez.jpg Art - Divine Feminine "Atabex Karaya", 2014. Acrylic on navy fabric, approx 70" x 45". Atabex is the Taíno fertility goddess. Karaya is Arawak for the moon. This life-like Atabex, who loses the anthropomorphic frog legs of the traditional image to appear more like a woman birthing is associated with the moon and also Yoruba fertility & motherhood goddesses Yemaya & Ochun. From her birth canal emerges light for the spanish term for birthing: dar a luz. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/bbdef683-7b49-41f0-a4c7-ab7e86515491/AtabexKarayaYasminHernandez.jpg Art - Divine Feminine "Atabex Karaya", 2014. Acrylic on navy fabric, approx 70" x 45". Atabex is the Taíno fertility goddess. Karaya is Arawak for the moon. This life-like Atabex, who loses the anthropomorphic frog legs of the traditional image to appear more like a woman birthing is associated with the moon and also Yoruba fertility & motherhood goddesses Yemaya & Ochun. From her birth canal emerges light for the spanish term for birthing: dar a luz. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/739069fe-618a-424c-bef0-aa1f6498a1cc/2014BlackGoldYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Divine Feminine "Black Gold of the Sun" 2014 2014, Acrylic on canvas, 36" x 18". Self-portrait representing my 1st pregnancy. The image is inspired by the sun and references the lower three chakras (groundedness, seat of emotions, personal power) for the lessons I embodied during that first pregnancy and home birth. The title is taken from the 1970s song by Rotary Connection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/739069fe-618a-424c-bef0-aa1f6498a1cc/2014BlackGoldYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Divine Feminine "Black Gold of the Sun" 2014 2014, Acrylic on canvas, 36" x 18". Self-portrait representing my 1st pregnancy. The image is inspired by the sun and references the lower three chakras (groundedness, seat of emotions, personal power) for the lessons I embodied during that first pregnancy and home birth. The title is taken from the 1970s song by Rotary Connection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/7cefd4a4-6d19-4b86-a0e9-b252eb5e140d/birthofafamilyYHernandez.jpg Art - Divine Feminine "Nacimiento" 2013. Digital Montage on paper, 18" x 12". This image is of the moment that my midwife Sakina O'Uhuru placed my second son Josef in my arms after I birthed him in our bedroom. His dad & brother look on. I describe the physical & spiritual intensity of my sons' births as my having had to go out into the universe to get their spirits and bring them back. That is what I depict in this image with Josef and I out in the nebula. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/7cefd4a4-6d19-4b86-a0e9-b252eb5e140d/birthofafamilyYHernandez.jpg Art - Divine Feminine "Nacimiento" 2013. Digital Montage on paper, 18" x 12". This image is of the moment that my midwife Sakina O'Uhuru placed my second son Josef in my arms after I birthed him in our bedroom. His dad & brother look on. I describe the physical & spiritual intensity of my sons' births as my having had to go out into the universe to get their spirits and bring them back. That is what I depict in this image with Josef and I out in the nebula. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/4736b4c3-d7c5-4a37-ade0-605588111085/atabexnatural.jpg Art - Divine Feminine "Atabex Natural" 2012. Charcoal, conte crayon and mirror discs on wood panel. 7" x 5". Atabex is the Taíno fertility goddess. She is surrounded by spiral representing water and fertility. Circles with a dot in the center, as seen in her headdress represent the naval/ the source and evidence of life and alternately represent polaris our skies. Over her vagina is a mirror disc to attract light, as a reference to the spanish term for birthing: dar a luz. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/4736b4c3-d7c5-4a37-ade0-605588111085/atabexnatural.jpg Art - Divine Feminine "Atabex Natural" 2012. Charcoal, conte crayon and mirror discs on wood panel. 7" x 5". Atabex is the Taíno fertility goddess. She is surrounded by spiral representing water and fertility. Circles with a dot in the center, as seen in her headdress represent the naval/ the source and evidence of life and alternately represent polaris our skies. Over her vagina is a mirror disc to attract light, as a reference to the spanish term for birthing: dar a luz. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/e6e6f2c8-75d8-4cc9-8d68-2e660a1f4883/CemiYasminHernandez.jpg Art - Divine Feminine "Cemí" 2009. Acrylic & copper pigment on black fabric. 20" x 30". I created this piece out of frustration of having reached almost 2 weeks past my "due date". In NY it meant I wouldn't be able to birth at home. I wrote a letter to my son asking him to be born and created this painting using a women's pregnant body to represent the male fertility figure of a Taíno 3-pointer cemí. The spirals & concentric circles represent fertility and water. I went into labor the next day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/1733795082034-SE2EWL91SWANG8LO6MEH/YasminHernandezArt.Soldaderas.PhotoMarinaOrtiz.jpg Art - Divine Feminine "Soldaderas" 2011. Outdoor Mural, Modesto "Tín" Flores Community Garden, 105th Street and Lexington Avenue, El Barrio East Harlem. Approx, 10 x 20 feet. Soldaderas, named after the women soldiers of the Mexican Revolution, is a mural tribute to Mexican painter Frida Kahlo and Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos. It honors the common histories/ struggles, and solidarity of Mexicans/ Chicanx and Puerto Ricans. Inspired by Kahlo’s painting, “Las dos Fridas,” the two women sit holding hands, their flags merge sharing a central red stripe. Soldaderas is also inspired by the neighboring Puerto Rican and Mexican communities who have made El Barrio/ East Harlem their home.  https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/1733795082034-SE2EWL91SWANG8LO6MEH/YasminHernandezArt.Soldaderas.PhotoMarinaOrtiz.jpg Art - Divine Feminine "Soldaderas" 2011. Outdoor Mural, Modesto "Tín" Flores Community Garden, 105th Street and Lexington Avenue, El Barrio East Harlem. Approx, 10 x 20 feet. Soldaderas, named after the women soldiers of the Mexican Revolution, is a mural tribute to Mexican painter Frida Kahlo and Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos. It honors the common histories/ struggles, and solidarity of Mexicans/ Chicanx and Puerto Ricans. Inspired by Kahlo’s painting, “Las dos Fridas,” the two women sit holding hands, their flags merge sharing a central red stripe. Soldaderas is also inspired by the neighboring Puerto Rican and Mexican communities who have made El Barrio/ East Harlem their home.  https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/e6e6f2c8-75d8-4cc9-8d68-2e660a1f4883/CemiYasminHernandez.jpg Art - Divine Feminine "Cemí" 2009. Acrylic & copper pigment on black fabric. 20" x 30". I created this piece out of frustration of having reached almost 2 weeks past my "due date". In NY it meant I wouldn't be able to birth at home. I wrote a letter to my son asking him to be born and created this painting using a women's pregnant body to represent the male fertility figure of a Taíno 3-pointer cemí. The spirals & concentric circles represent fertility and water. I went into labor the next day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/b7b5c766-4829-4571-9e5e-235b83a7774e/Mothers.Motherless.yasminhernandez.jpg Art - Divine Feminine Commissioned by the Edmonia Lewis Center for Women and Transgendered People, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio. Acrylic on canvas, 8' x 8'. Mothers of the motherless envisions various women, queer and trans leaders who "mothered" various communities with their activism, protection, love and nurturing. They are arranged within a whirlpool of Yemaya's waters. Featured alongside their names and swirling formations of cowrie shells adhered to the canvas. In the center is artist Edmonia Lewis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/b7b5c766-4829-4571-9e5e-235b83a7774e/Mothers.Motherless.yasminhernandez.jpg Art - Divine Feminine Commissioned by the Edmonia Lewis Center for Women and Transgendered People, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio. Acrylic on canvas, 8' x 8'. Mothers of the motherless envisions various women, queer and trans leaders who "mothered" various communities with their activism, protection, love and nurturing. They are arranged within a whirlpool of Yemaya's waters. Featured alongside their names and swirling formations of cowrie shells adhered to the canvas. In the center is artist Edmonia Lewis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/b45b35b2-8950-4670-8264-6d43f7ab0056/2006AyiLoDaYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Divine Feminine "Ayi lo da" (Oya), 2006,Mixed media on canvas, 36" x 24", The Woman who Changes Things/ Oya Yansa, Queen of the Nine is the Yoruba warrior orisha of change, owner of the winds, the tornado, lightning and the 9 tributaries of the Niger River. Her color is purple or 9 different colors associated with the eggun, the dead. Her machete cuts through the air as her weapon. In the background is a collage of global revolutionary women of color. This image appears on the cover of Women Warriors of the Afro-Latina Diaspora. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/b45b35b2-8950-4670-8264-6d43f7ab0056/2006AyiLoDaYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Divine Feminine "Ayi lo da" (Oya), 2006,Mixed media on canvas, 36" x 24", The Woman who Changes Things/ Oya Yansa, Queen of the Nine is the Yoruba warrior orisha of change, owner of the winds, the tornado, lightning and the 9 tributaries of the Niger River. Her color is purple or 9 different colors associated with the eggun, the dead. Her machete cuts through the air as her weapon. In the background is a collage of global revolutionary women of color. This image appears on the cover of Women Warriors of the Afro-Latina Diaspora. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/82891e46-605c-487b-bb5f-9bc0cc468ccf/2006JuliadeBurgos.YasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Divine Feminine "Jíbara Julia" 2006, Soul Rebels. Acrylic on burlap, 84" x 39". Portrait of the legendary Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos (2014-1953). This image depicts her as the liberator she described in her poetry. Featured in calligraphy is an excerpt from her poem Pentacromia: "Seria un obrero picando la caña/ sudando el jornal/ A brazos arriba/ los puños en alto/ quitandole al mundo mi parte de pan. (I'd be a laborer cutting cane, sweating the wage, arms up, fists high, taking from the world my piece of bread.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/82891e46-605c-487b-bb5f-9bc0cc468ccf/2006JuliadeBurgos.YasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Divine Feminine "Jíbara Julia" 2006, Soul Rebels. Acrylic on burlap, 84" x 39". Portrait of the legendary Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos (2014-1953). This image depicts her as the liberator she described in her poetry. Featured in calligraphy is an excerpt from her poem Pentacromia: "Seria un obrero picando la caña/ sudando el jornal/ A brazos arriba/ los puños en alto/ quitandole al mundo mi parte de pan. (I'd be a laborer cutting cane, sweating the wage, arms up, fists high, taking from the world my piece of bread.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/fe7a7e57-7113-4299-a12a-2d9ad7e4d35d/2005selfportraitYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Divine Feminine "Self Portrait After Frida," 2005. Mixed media on canvas 40" x 30". Prior to my Soldaderas mural, I had always admired Frida Kahlo's painting Las dos Fridas. In my self-portrait after Frida, I cut my heart out and divide it in two parts. In the background are lyrics from "Black Flowers", by Fishbone: "No I won't give in to hatred and I'll never stop dreaming/ and I'll love, oh I'll love till my very last breath is taken away. The colors red & black are a reference to Yoruba Orisha Eshu and the crossroads. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/1734567171950-YMXKE6HMPT0RZ7U71EBQ/2006YasminHernandezArt_Dylcia.jpg Art - Divine Feminine "Querer ser libre (Dylcia Pagán)" 2006 2006, Acrylic, seashells and peacock feathers on canvas. 24" x 36". Portrait of my dear friend and mentor, former Puerto Rican political prisoner Dylcia Pagán as I remembered her during an afternoon we spent at the sea, behind her home in Loíza, Puerto Rico. The quote is of Ramon Emeterio Betances, (The desire to be free is to begin being free) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/1734567171950-YMXKE6HMPT0RZ7U71EBQ/2006YasminHernandezArt_Dylcia.jpg Art - Divine Feminine "Querer ser libre (Dylcia Pagán)" 2006 2006, Acrylic, seashells and peacock feathers on canvas. 24" x 36". Portrait of my dear friend and mentor, former Puerto Rican political prisoner Dylcia Pagán as I remembered her during an afternoon we spent at the sea, behind her home in Loíza, Puerto Rico. The quote is of Ramon Emeterio Betances, (The desire to be free is to begin being free) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/fe7a7e57-7113-4299-a12a-2d9ad7e4d35d/2005selfportraitYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Divine Feminine "Self Portrait After Frida," 2005. Mixed media on canvas 40" x 30". Prior to my Soldaderas mural, I had always admired Frida Kahlo's painting Las dos Fridas. In my self-portrait after Frida, I cut my heart out and divide it in two parts. In the background are lyrics from "Black Flowers", by Fishbone: "No I won't give in to hatred and I'll never stop dreaming/ and I'll love, oh I'll love till my very last breath is taken away. The colors red & black are a reference to Yoruba Orisha Eshu and the crossroads. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/4eb1c8d7-221a-4f66-9154-5e3c6a5c4271/2003MamitaYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Divine Feminine "Mamita," 2004, Mixed media on canvas, 36" x 18". This portrait honors my mother in law after she passed from cancer. I created the image after a favorite 1970s family snapshot of her. Her figure appears over a collage of family photos glazed in the colors of her colombian flag. Since she was very Catholic, all of her photos & that of other relatives who have passed have halos. Like the sacred heart, an image of her & her first-born son who passed appear on her chest, marking their reunion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/58bce442-e634-4c7b-9f15-450c2cd3fb3e/YasminHernandez_PesarYOrgullodelaRevolucionaria.jpg Art - Divine Feminine "Pesar y orgullo de la revolucionaria" 2004, Mixed media on canvas, 48" x 24". This portrait of Puerto Rican Nationalist Lolita Lebron shows her at the time of her arrest having led an armed protest at the US Capitol on March 1, 1954. She is nude with prison bars glazed over her flesh, marking the double standard imposed on women revolutionaries and the violation of their bodies as political prisoners. The collage features revolutionary women of color. This piece was in response to the 2004 Washington Post Magazine article with Lolita’s image on the cover and the title: When Terror Wore Lipstick. I was asked to contribute artwork to that article. I asked for assurance that she would not be presented in a negative light then was mortified when it was published with that cover. In a public chat with the author, people criticized Lolita for abandoning her children, making references to domestic responsibilities that male revolutionaries are never challenged on. With this work, I contemplated her body as a cell, a site of oppression that the empire wages violence on. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/58bce442-e634-4c7b-9f15-450c2cd3fb3e/YasminHernandez_PesarYOrgullodelaRevolucionaria.jpg Art - Divine Feminine "Pesar y orgullo de la revolucionaria" 2004, Mixed media on canvas, 48" x 24". This portrait of Puerto Rican Nationalist Lolita Lebron shows her at the time of her arrest having led an armed protest at the US Capitol on March 1, 1954. She is nude with prison bars glazed over her flesh, marking the double standard imposed on women revolutionaries and the violation of their bodies as political prisoners. The collage features revolutionary women of color. This piece was in response to the 2004 Washington Post Magazine article with Lolita’s image on the cover and the title: When Terror Wore Lipstick. I was asked to contribute artwork to that article. I asked for assurance that she would not be presented in a negative light then was mortified when it was published with that cover. In a public chat with the author, people criticized Lolita for abandoning her children, making references to domestic responsibilities that male revolutionaries are never challenged on. With this work, I contemplated her body as a cell, a site of oppression that the empire wages violence on. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/4eb1c8d7-221a-4f66-9154-5e3c6a5c4271/2003MamitaYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Divine Feminine "Mamita," 2004, Mixed media on canvas, 36" x 18". This portrait honors my mother in law after she passed from cancer. I created the image after a favorite 1970s family snapshot of her. Her figure appears over a collage of family photos glazed in the colors of her colombian flag. Since she was very Catholic, all of her photos & that of other relatives who have passed have halos. Like the sacred heart, an image of her & her first-born son who passed appear on her chest, marking their reunion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/ca9d059b-0f0b-4bec-b749-0b5fba9c291e/2003ochunYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Divine Feminine "Miel de abeja (Para Ochun)" 2003, Acrylic & peacock feathers on canvas, 30" x 24". Miel de abeja, honey is an offering for the Yoruba goddess of sweetness and love, Oshun. Honey is what inspired the palette for this image of Oshun in a river of sweet water, colored by the earth. Her crown is made of real peacock feathers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/ca9d059b-0f0b-4bec-b749-0b5fba9c291e/2003ochunYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Divine Feminine "Miel de abeja (Para Ochun)" 2003, Acrylic & peacock feathers on canvas, 30" x 24". Miel de abeja, honey is an offering for the Yoruba goddess of sweetness and love, Oshun. Honey is what inspired the palette for this image of Oshun in a river of sweet water, colored by the earth. Her crown is made of real peacock feathers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/8ed4f60e-977a-428b-ba00-e2341d1d8212/2003YasminHernandezArt_YemayaY+Ochun.jpg Art - Divine Feminine "Yemaya y Ochun," 2003 2003 Acrylic on Watercolor 15" x 11" Collection of Liliana Polo Commissioned by El Diario/ La Prensa for their 2003 Women's Month Distinguished Latinas celebration. I was selected as an honoree the following year, 2004. This image honors women through the solidarity of sister orishas of femininity, motherhood, fertility and love, Yemaya & Ochun, within a women's torso. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/8ed4f60e-977a-428b-ba00-e2341d1d8212/2003YasminHernandezArt_YemayaY+Ochun.jpg Art - Divine Feminine "Yemaya y Ochun," 2003 2003 Acrylic on Watercolor 15" x 11" Collection of Liliana Polo Commissioned by El Diario/ La Prensa for their 2003 Women's Month Distinguished Latinas celebration. I was selected as an honoree the following year, 2004. This image honors women through the solidarity of sister orishas of femininity, motherhood, fertility and love, Yemaya & Ochun, within a women's torso. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/04a4d24a-26c6-4a03-9f17-170b1d3fb62b/2000yemayaYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Divine Feminine "Yemaya" 2000. Oil on canvas, 4' x 3'. This painting of Yemaya is responsible for the majority of cyber communications & inquiries I receive regarding my art. Many folks are drawn to this image as they are drawn to the ocean & its mysteries. Yemaya is the Yoruba goddess of motherhood & the ocean. I painted this in gratitude for a spectacular sea experience during my honeymoon in Tortola, Virgin Islands. I painted this 7 years before being marked a child of Yemaya. I am ever grateful for her blessings! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/6b9c9bfa-e569-4fb5-8c2d-a8e5b581e9b1/1999AsesuYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Divine Feminine "Yemaya Asesu," 1999, Oil on canvas, 30" x 24" This was my first portrait of Yemaya, created in the underpainting/ glaze technique. I titled it Yemaya Asesu as it was created as a gift for my cousin, and that is the aspect of Yemaya that he has crowned. Here she is seen as rising from the foam of crashing waves. Yemaya as the ocean is connected to the moon. This is why the image is set at night with the full moon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/6b9c9bfa-e569-4fb5-8c2d-a8e5b581e9b1/1999AsesuYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Divine Feminine "Yemaya Asesu," 1999, Oil on canvas, 30" x 24" This was my first portrait of Yemaya, created in the underpainting/ glaze technique. I titled it Yemaya Asesu as it was created as a gift for my cousin, and that is the aspect of Yemaya that he has crowned. Here she is seen as rising from the foam of crashing waves. Yemaya as the ocean is connected to the moon. This is why the image is set at night with the full moon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/04a4d24a-26c6-4a03-9f17-170b1d3fb62b/2000yemayaYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Divine Feminine "Yemaya" 2000. Oil on canvas, 4' x 3'. This painting of Yemaya is responsible for the majority of cyber communications & inquiries I receive regarding my art. Many folks are drawn to this image as they are drawn to the ocean & its mysteries. Yemaya is the Yoruba goddess of motherhood & the ocean. I painted this in gratitude for a spectacular sea experience during my honeymoon in Tortola, Virgin Islands. I painted this 7 years before being marked a child of Yemaya. I am ever grateful for her blessings! https://yasminhernandez.art/art/divine-masculine monthly 0.5 2025-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/6b74ae02-0df4-4855-969a-571a267e26b2/FireNextTime_PiriThomas_JamesBaldwin_YasminHernandezArt2024.jpg Art - Divine Masculine "The Fire Next Time" (Piri Thomas and James Baldwin) 2024. Yasmin Hernandez. Afro.Bori.Libertaria. series. Acrylic on polytab cloth. These two literary giants are featured together as they appear in the library of freedom fighter Filiberto Ojeda Ríos. Piri spoke to youth everywhere through his poetry, his famed novel Down these Mean Streets and other books. Using his own struggles navigating the imposed violence on young black and brown men, his literary work taught the power to be found in claiming self-love and owning one’s own emotions and vulnerability. James Baldwin, as a queer black man who felt safer living outside of the United States, he scrutinized imposed gender norms, toxic masculinity, patriarchy, colonialism and racism. In his Letter to my Nephew he speaks to his 15 year-old namesake offering advice on navigating these very things as a black teen in the US. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/6a8d89eb-6792-4db3-8278-b18d12c5b9de/SacredGround.YasminHernandezArt2024.jpg Art - Divine Masculine Solidaridad en suelo sagrado (Solidarity on Sacred Soil) 2024. Afro.Bori.Libertaria. series. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on poly tab cloth. This work depicting mostly Puerto Rican and African American former political prisoners standing before the home of freedom fighter Filiberto Ojeda Ríos is a tribute to their revolutionary solidarity. Watching these brothers, one by one, profess their love for their nations, their people, for this land, for Filiberto and each other, declaring their commitment to liberation via testimonials, poems, tears and hugs was one of the most powerful manifestations of the divine masculine that I have ever witnessed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/35bf0b9c-ec95-4c6a-a221-9c0fc62d3a74/515_RematriatingBoriken_YasminHernandez.jpg Art - Divine Masculine "515", 2024 Portraits from the Trench series. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic and sequins on black velvet. This double portrait of my son marks his rematriation journey from 5, his age when we arrived to live in Borikén, to 15 years old, his age when I painted this for our tenth anniversary here. It traces his development from boyhood to adolescence with the fierce feminine, protective presence of the angler fish hovering above him. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/05600ec1-4826-42eb-a042-6413f925339a/BabyJosefasAnglerFish_YasminHernandezArt_RematriatingBoriken.jpg Art - Divine Masculine "Baby Josef as Angler Fish" 2021. Portraits from the Trench series. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on canvas. This portrait of my youngest son when he was nine, celebrates his playfulness and joy, fusing it with the lamp, glowing fins and filaments of the angler fish. He had been playing with a lamp over his head, pretending to be one. It also subverts the angler's menacing fangs with his falling and growing teeth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/485f1ca3-4a19-4321-8b76-b30a03990bb2/LuisaCosmica_YasminHernandezArt_2004_wtrm.jpg Art - Divine Masculine "Luisa Cósmica" 2022. CucubaNación series. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on canvas. This portrait of Puerto Rican anarcho-feminist, espiritista, writer, lectora, union organizer and more, Luisa Capetillo, shows her wearing the men's clothing she typically wore and for which she was arrested in Cuba in 1914. Luisa penned what is considered the first feminist manifesto in 1911. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/aae71267-b316-432b-9a5f-7b1562465f40/GeorgeFloydNebula_YasminHernandezArt2019wm.jpg Art - Divine Masculine "George Floyd Nebula" 2020. Yasmin Hernandez. Color Pencil on black paper. While drawing this portrait of George Floyd, my son who was 8 at the time wanted to know who I was drawing. I explained. Confused and saddened that his life was violently taken, he asked, "Whose belly was he in?” Finding a photo on my phone of George Floyd as a boy in his mother's arms, I held it up to him. "Why would anyone want to kill him as a grown up when he was such a cute boy?," he questioned. My child advocated for George Floyd's humanity, asking to see his mother, declaring him as a "cute boy" still worthy of love and justice as a grown man, connecting him to his source and history. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/51d1992e-53d8-4199-bf0c-bf22446e73b0/CucubanoMayor_YasminHernandez_wm.jpg Art - Divine Masculine "El Cucubano Mayor" 2020. CucubaNación series. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on canvas. This portrait of Puerto Rican Nationalist leader Rafael Cancel Miranda was created the night before he passed. Cucubano Mayor, already working on my series of luminous boricuas, is the first portrait inspired by our brown bioluminescent click-beetle. It honors him as freedom fighter, a kind, loving, guiding presence among his people. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/ca987f53-c462-4d4e-826e-1b2851463acc/ShineYourLight_Exonerated5_YasminHernandezArt_2019.jpg Art - Divine Masculine "Shine Your Light", 2019 Yasmin Hernandez. CucubaNación series. Acrylic on canvas This portrait juxtaposes the boys of the so-called "Central Park Five" with their images as men: the Exonerated Five. I was 14 in 1989, same age as several of the boys at the time of their arrest, and was transformed deeply after watching Duvernay’s When They See Us. I painted them shining their light, inspired by fireflies (red heads, black wings with yellow outlines and green glow: colors of black liberation.) It is a commentary on injustice, the stealing of the innocence of black boys, the violation of black men across the planet, and a call to lift the divine masculine. Included is a lyric excerpt from (formerly Mos Def) Yasiin Bey’s "Umi Says": “Shine your light for the world to see…. I want black people to be free, to be free, to be free …. That’s all that matters to me.” This song itself is an expression of the Divine Masculine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/b481afd8-40e7-4655-8bad-3487fc1e419c/CucubaNacionNinaDroz_YasminHernandezArt_2019.jpg Art - Divine Masculine "Amante de la Libertad" (Nina Droz Franco), 2019. CucubaNación series. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on canvas. This is a portrait of former Puerto Rican political prisoner Nina Droz Franco as a firefly channeling the warrior spirit of the indigenous ancestors of these lands. Nina was arrested at the 2017 May Day protests against the colonial debt and austerity. She was sent to federal prison in Tallahassee, Florida, same city where Ángel Rodríguez Cristobal was imprisoned after being arrested for protesting the Navy in Vieques in 1979. He turned up dead in his prison cell on Veteran’s Day, an event avenged by Los Macheteros. Why do I include Nina here? For unapologetically holding, owning all her energies. For fighting for justice. For being the only woman pallbearer helping to carry our freedom fighter Rafael Cancel Miranda’s casket at his funerary mass in Mayaguez on International Women’s Day, 2020. For, like Julia de Burgos, continuing the legacy “con la tea en la mano.” She is both divine feminine and masculine alike! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/725de7c5-a0a7-4a81-93e2-901124f7351b/YasminHernandezArt_FlyPapi2019wm.jpg Art - Divine Masculine "Fly Papi", 2019 CucubaNación series. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on black fabric. Portrait of my father in the 1980s, from my CucubaNación series inspired by fireflies. Red heads, black bodies with yellow outlines and green glows are the colors of the common firefly, colors of black liberation. With this portrait series I affirm Puerto Rico’s place within the African diaspora and resist our continued status as a colony of the US. In my childhood my father was known for rockin’ his dashikis. It was my father who began speaking to me of Puerto Rico’s liberation struggle when I was a teen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/07f464c9-803d-4fa3-bea6-7f997e59eb3d/YasminHernandezArt_Joefish.jpg Art - Divine Masculine "Bioluminescent Brother", 2019. CucubaNación series. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on dark blue fabric. This is my oceanic/ celestial/ bioluminescent B-Boy brother Joseph. We lost him at 43 to Multiple Myeloma, a blood cancer. I finished this painting at precisely the same age (minus a week) that he was when he passed. I first started painting bioluminescence in 2009 for a painting series dedicated to Vieques. He received his cancer diagnosis while I was on a research trip to Vieques in 2008. I painted him alongside the fish that gave him so much peace in his times of battle and the majestic bioluminescence of the waters of our ancestors. My brother was the person who introduced me to art and music as weapons, as medicine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/4628cb99-5370-4992-b071-d816e00d5fc8/Betances+Bioluminiscente.jpg Art - Divine Masculine "Betances Bioluminiscente", 2018 CucubaNación series. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on canvas. Betances, father of the Puerto Rican Nationality, abolitionist, fought in the French Revolution and authored the Lares Revolution of 1868. As a journalist and novelist, his pen name was el Antillano (the Antillean) describing his work as a physician and commitment to the health of communities in Puerto Rico, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, the Virgin Islands and Cuba. I painted him emerging from colonial post-María darkness to anoint and illuminate the Antilles with healing bioluminescent waters flowing from his hands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/f00dbe6d-f556-45aa-9652-6ada1b97a5d2/11_OscarLopez_RegaloDeLosReyesMural_YasminHernandez2017.jpg Art - Divine Masculine "El Regalo de los reyes", 2017 Yasmin Hernandez. Outdoor Mural, Radio Raíces, San Sebastián, Puerto Rico I created this mural to commemorate Oscar Lopez Rivera’s release from prison and return to his hometown after 35 years as a political prisoner of the United States. With his birthday on Three Kings Day, it features Los Tres Reyes or Orion’s Belt in the center with adjacent stars Betelgeuse and Rigel creating red and blue triangular nebulas of the Puerto Rican and Cuban flags. The text is taken from Julia de Burgos’ poem of the same title about our flag. Working with the colors of our flag as references to the oxygen and hydrogen of our waters and bodies, as reflected in nebulas, is my way of transcending past the confines of colonialism, envisioning Boricuas as both bioluminescent and cosmic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/a24b7508-3757-417e-b25e-4fdda8164484/2016YasminHernandezEsoquellamamoslalibertad.jpg Art - Divine Masculine "Eso que llamamos la libertad", Elizam Escobar, 2016. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on canvas. Portrait of artist, poet, professor, former Puerto Rican political prisoner, Elizam Escobar. I include a quote I heard during his presentation at a conference: "Eso que llamamos la Libertad no es un estado de ser es una práctica.” (That which we call freedom is not a state of being, it is a practice.) I painted him dressed in a nebula to reference the transcendent liberatory practice embodied by Elizam in his art, actions, and words. Elizam left this plane in January of 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/037653e8-a2e3-40fb-bc80-4c709cd9938f/2015YasminHernandezArt.NebulaFiliberto.jpg Art - Divine Masculine “Nébula: Filiberto Ojeda Ríos”, 2015 Más allá de la luna series. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on canvas. Filiberto Ojeda Rios, clandestine revolutionary leader assassinated by the FBI at his Hormigueros, Puerto Rico home at the age of 72, orchestrates more liberationist magic from the heavens. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/21fbba6e-b9b8-41a8-be90-86409fb9ce36/2016_TransmutacionDelAlma_YasminHernandez72sm.jpg Art - Divine Masculine “La transmutación del alma”, 2016 Más allá de la luna series. Yasmin Hernandez. Digital Montage on Paper. Tribute to Puerto Rican liberationist Pedro Albizu Campos, his wife Laura Meneses & their children. The couple met at Harvard where he studied law. Laura was a scientist from Peru. Featuring excerpts of letters he wrote to his daughters from la Princesa prison, 1936, in one he asks "What mystery does water hold that God would choose it as the element for the transmutation of the soul?" These letters are published in Las llamas del aurora, the most comprehensive biography of Don Pedro written by Marisa Rosado. Also included are collaged images of the couple with their children. We usually see images of Albizu the revolutionary but seldom see images in his role as father. When Albizu was imprisoned, Doña Laura continued his struggle, living in México, later adopted by the Cuban Revolution where she passed after a long life advocating for Puerto Rico’s Independence and her husband’s release from prison. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/1735225023545-JP1SDS2ECT8CXG6QZXPT/2015nebulaAlbizuYasminHernandez.jpg Art - Divine Masculine “Nébula: Pedro Albizu Campos” 2015 Más allá de la luna series, Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on black velour. Liberationist Pedro Albizu Campos emerges as a screaming spirit in this piece commemorating the 50th anniversary since his 1965 death. Exactly two months after the assassination of Malcolm X, Albizu passed from cancer caused by radiation experiments he was subjected to while a political prisoner of the US. This anniversary marked a grim time in my move to Puerto Rico, one in which I asked his spirit for the strength to persevere here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/02972d89-0e76-4f56-bca3-20624188dab6/2010fuckcancerYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Divine Masculine “Fuck Cancer”, 2010 Outlaw Clothesline series. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on cotton bandana. This is the first painting of what expanded into a series of works on bandanas that I associated with my brother from his teen “outlaw” days to his cancer battle. “Fuck Cancer” was my brother’s mantra that he would turn into graffiti signs for his room at the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital. I copied one of the signs onto this image using markers from his case that he would carry from home to the hospital. I kept his case of pens and markers that still smells like his cigar smoke. My brother, from his battles as a kid, through the ultimate battle for his life, is my forever reference for divine masculinity. His authentic strength and openness allowed him to share the lessons of his struggles with others, his superpower became alchemizing his wounds and scars into healing light. Ironically, I became much closer to him during his illness, committing to be someone that he could be vulnerable around, which is a difficult task for black men. In his case, it was difficult to give up his perceived duty of taking care of his mother and sisters. He thankfully had a solid community of people of all persuasions that would provide constant support. It was through him that I witnessed the power of love among friends, among people who would have your back no matter what. My whole family benefitted from the love he fostered among friends and perfect strangers, always bringing smiles and healing via his own street-struggles turned salvation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/00e17360-2b94-47ca-8def-6284c82d4b24/2009carmelo.cemi.yasminhernandezart.jpg Art - Divine Masculine "Carmelo Cemí", 2009. Bieké Tierra de Valientes series. Yasmin Hernandez. Carmelo Félix Matta was working in St. Croix when he met María Velázquez Rijos. They fell in love and moved to Vieques where he was from, and where her family was from though, she was born and raised on St. Croix. Back in Vieques, needing land to make their home, Carmelo began to clear out appropriated military properties. As other families too needed land for their homes they simply cleared them, “rescatando/ rescuing” these lands from the Navy. Not pleased, the Navy tried to forcibly evict Carmelo, María and their family from their property but, a beekeeper, it was Carmelo’s bees that came to the rescue, descending on the military personnel and driving them off their property. Carmelo’s efforts led to the founding of various communities including Monte Carmelo and Bravos de Boston. Unfortunately, these are some of the most coveted areas affected by gentrification in Vieques today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/be3000ae-8453-44bc-accd-b13d7f81c566/2009YasminHernandez_Basta_Bieke.jpg Art - Divine Masculine “Basta”2009 Bieké: Tierra de Valientes series. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on military tent, Approx 10' x 8'. Chain link fencing, wire cutters and military debris. For this 2009 edition of my Basta installation, the fence is cut down as the people of Vieques did when they cut down the fences demarcating civilian from appropriated US military properties. The US Navy began appropriating Vieques lands in the 1940s to create the Navy base that they used for weapons testing and military training for over 60 years. Yaurel, featured in the painting, was nine years old back when I took the photo that would lead to this painting. His father is an activist that helped take protesters and supplies to the bombing range. His mother is an educator and a leading voice in the continued struggle for peace and justice on Vieques. Today Yaurel is an adult, a judo champion, music artist and most recently the stunt double running with the Puerto Rican Flag in Bad Bunny’s video for “La Mudanza”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/885f4d4b-c051-4aa3-9c3d-eb8028afdf7b/2006AlbizuElevao.jpg Art - Divine Masculine “Albizu Elevao” 2006 Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on Burlap Ay como lo escupieron...Como lo empujaron…Como lo llevaron a crucificar -excerpt from the salsa song "El Todopoderoso" (Oh how they spit on him, how they pushed him, how they took him to crucifixion). This work references the radiation experiments that the US government conducted on the father of Puerto Rican Nationalism Pedro Albizu Campos. These were secretly administered in the form of bright white or multicolored lights that would flash in his cell & in his hospital room. Albizu suffered burns & seizures, ultimately passing from cancer as a result in 1965. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/a0b63ab5-4cf3-4ca0-8421-baf25c57aa33/2003DelbertAfricaYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Divine Masculine “Delbert Africa” 2003. Yasmin Hernandez. Mixed media on canvas. This image marks the moment in which Delbert Africa, member of the Philadelphia organization MOVE, steps out unarmed, hands in the air & is still beaten by the police during a raid of the MOVE home. A photograph of the incident is collaged on his chest as the sacred heart, his Christ-like image is bordered by a gold background. The collage includes other images from that horrific raid of the MOVE home in West Philadelphia on August 8, 1978 and of the 1985 bombing of the MOVE home by the police. Delbert Africa was a political prisoner for 42 years. He was finally released in 2020 and passed six months later. With this image I aim to visibilize an image largely eclipsed and hidden from US history. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/1735225921369-YWY54LKT70KDR2WSBMXI/2003Obatala.yasmin.hernandezart.jpg Art - Divine Masculine “Obatala” 2003 Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on canvas. Commissioned by Alex Ulanov. Portrait of the Yoruba orisha of peace, wisdom, creativity: Obatala. Divine Masculine is the wise, peaceful energy of our elders and ancestors. It is achieving the experience and wisdom to speak from a confident space marked by inner knowing, inner peace, self-trust and self-love. Divine masculine is having the grace to listen, be touched and expanded by another’s experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/1735225992051-2623X3CPXC277BPJ7RI8/2003boxersYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Divine Masculine "Portrait of the Artist & Her Brother in Warrior Training Camp" 2003. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on canvas. I painted this image after a favorite family snap shot of my brother & I wearing boxing gloves when I was 5. I meant it as a tribute to my amazing big brother. He first saw it at an exhibit I opened on April 27th, 2003. On April 27th, 2010, 7 years to the day, we lost him to cancer. This portrait had been hanging in his room. Honor your loved ones however you can, now while you can tell them & show them. Let’s commit to lifting each other up, versus pulling others down into our misery. Let’s assume the responsibility of our healing so we cease dumping our pain and trauma on others. Let’s commit to being a safe, sanctuary space for ourselves and others so we can heal safely, collectively. https://yasminhernandez.art/art/afroborilibertaria monthly 0.5 2025-07-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/b633017e-a77f-4f4a-89ec-1b20ba37aab0/2024_SDamaryBurgos_Heliconias.JPG Art - Afro.Bori.Libertaria S. Damary Burgos. "Frutas libertarias", 2024 Acrylic on polytab cloth. (Assata Shakur, Mumia Abu Jamal, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Miguel Sánchez, Pedro Albizu Campos.) Two pieces are created as curtains with tropical fruits found on Filberto’s finca. The silhouettes of pans and muffin tins from Filiberto’s kitchen frame portraits of Afro Indigenous revolutionaries included in the library. The colors of these works contrast countless bullet blasts on the walls and ceilings. The purpose of the art is not to adorn or mask the mortal rawness of the space but rather to remind us of the typical, day to day life lived in this intimate space prior to September 23rd, 2005. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/b633017e-a77f-4f4a-89ec-1b20ba37aab0/2024_SDamaryBurgos_Heliconias.JPG Art - Afro.Bori.Libertaria S. Damary Burgos. "Heliconia de gratitud", 2024. Acrylic on polytab cloth. Birds of Paradise of Gratitude as the title, this work envisions machetes in the colors of these flowers. Afro descendant and Indigenous Boricuas continuing the struggle today are honored in this painting. Their portraits welcome visitors at the entrance to the home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/5c7f2d51-012a-44f1-a7f8-1fbacd9a0fcf/2024DamaryBurgos_FrutasLibertarias.jpg Art - Afro.Bori.Libertaria S. Damary Burgos. "Frutas libertarias", 2024 Acrylic on polytab cloth. (Assata Shakur, Mumia Abu Jamal, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Miguel Sánchez, Pedro Albizu Campos.) Two pieces are created as curtains with tropical fruits found on Filberto’s finca. The silhouettes of pans from Filiberto’s kitchen frame portraits of Afro Indigenous revolutionaries included in the library. The colors of these works contrast countless bullet blasts on the walls and ceilings. The purpose of the art is not to adorn or mask the mortal rawness of the space but rather to remind us of the typical, day to day life lived in this intimate space prior to September 23rd, 2005. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/5c7f2d51-012a-44f1-a7f8-1fbacd9a0fcf/2024DamaryBurgos_FrutasLibertarias.jpg Art - Afro.Bori.Libertaria S. Damary Burgos. "Frutas libertarias", 2024 Acrylic on polytab cloth. (Assata Shakur, Mumia Abu Jamal, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Miguel Sánchez, Pedro Albizu Campos.) Two pieces are created as curtains with tropical fruits found on Filberto’s finca. The silhouettes of pans from Filiberto’s kitchen frame portraits of Afro Indigenous revolutionaries included in the library. The colors of these works contrast countless bullet blasts on the walls and ceilings. The purpose of the art is not to adorn or mask the mortal rawness of the space but rather to remind us of the typical, day to day life lived in this intimate space prior to September 23rd, 2005. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/7628475e-8d6a-466b-acc0-bbf824568015/2024DamaryBurgos_Patria_deSemillasYAves.jpg Art - Afro.Bori.Libertaria S. Damary Burgos. "Frutas libertarias", 2024 Acrylic on polytab cloth. (Fidel Castro. Dominga de la Cruz Becerril. Hugo Chavéz. Malcolm X. Angela Davis. Filiberto Ojeda Ríos. Nelson Mandela. ) This is one of two artworks created as curtains with tropical fruits found on Filberto’s finca. The silhouettes of pans and muffin tins from his kitchen frame portraits of Afro Indigenous revolutionaries included in the library. The colors of these works contrast countless bullet blasts on the walls and ceilings. The purpose of the art is not to adorn or mask the mortal rawness of the space but rather to remind us of the typical, day to day life lived in this intimate space prior to September 23rd, 2005. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/7628475e-8d6a-466b-acc0-bbf824568015/2024DamaryBurgos_Patria_deSemillasYAves.jpg Art - Afro.Bori.Libertaria S. Damary Burgos. "Frutas libertarias", 2024 Acrylic on polytab cloth. (Fidel Castro. Dominga de la Cruz Becerril. Hugo Chavéz. Malcolm X. Angela Davis. Filiberto Ojeda Ríos. Nelson Mandela. ) This is one of two artworks created as curtains with tropical fruits found on Filberto’s finca. The silhouettes of pans and muffin tins from his kitchen frame portraits of Afro Indigenous revolutionaries included in the library. The colors of these works contrast countless bullet blasts on the walls and ceilings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/68f94a8b-5f9b-4ba1-adfa-acad43862120/2024_SDamaryBurgos_Caribe.JPG Art - Afro.Bori.Libertaria S. Damary Burgos. “Caribe: la pluma defensora de la mar” (Nancy Morejón, Julia Cristina Ortiz Lugo, Jamaica Kincaid) Instalación a Yemaya Atabeira. In the bathroom are “towels” with paintings of scenes of Playa Sucia, Combate and Boquerón. On the floor is a configuration of organic materials collected from these coasts remembering the figures of Atabey-Yemayá. On the other towel, there are three portraits of Antillean writers whose books are also part of the library of Casa FOR. In her book, “A Small Place” Kincaid warns of the displacement of our communities by the wealthy who covet our lands. Their extreme greed exploits our resources and our peoples, turning us into visitors on our own islands. Today the Esencia development threatens Cabo Rojo just 11 km from Playa Sucia, Filiberto’s favorite beach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/68f94a8b-5f9b-4ba1-adfa-acad43862120/2024_SDamaryBurgos_Caribe.JPG Art - Afro.Bori.Libertaria S. Damary Burgos. “Caribe: la pluma defensora de la mar” (Nancy Morejón, Julia Cristina Ortiz Lugo, Jamaica Kincaid) Instalación a Yemaya Atabeira. In the bathroom are “towels” with paintings of scenes of Playa Sucia, Combate and Boquerón. On the floor is a configuration of organic materials collected from these coasts remembering the figures of Atabey-Yemayá. On the other towel, there are three portraits of Antillean writers whose books are also part of the library of Casa FOR. In her book, “A Small Place” Kincaid warns of the displacement of our communities by the wealthy who covet our lands. Their extreme greed exploits our resources and our peoples, turning us into visitors on our own islands. Today the Esencia development threatens Cabo Rojo just 11 km from Playa Sucia, Filiberto’s favorite beach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/6a8d89eb-6792-4db3-8278-b18d12c5b9de/SacredGround.YasminHernandezArt2024.jpg Art - Afro.Bori.Libertaria Yasmín Hernandez “Solidarity on Sacred Soil”, 2024 Acrílico y tinta sobre pellón 16” x 48” This painting marks the historic moment in which ex political prisoners of the US united with those of Puerto Rico in la Casa Museo Filiberto Ojeda Ríos on September 23rd, 2023. From left to right: Adolfo Matos Antongiorgi, Edwin Cortes, Masai Ehehosi, Jalil Abdul Muntaqim, Kazi Toure, Ashanti Omowali Alston; Jaan Karl Laaman, Luis Rosa, Jihad Abdulmumit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/6a8d89eb-6792-4db3-8278-b18d12c5b9de/SacredGround.YasminHernandezArt2024.jpg Art - Afro.Bori.Libertaria Yasmín Hernandez “Solidarity on Sacred Soil”, 2024 Acrílico y tinta sobre pellón 16” x 48” This painting marks the historic moment in which ex political prisoners of the US united with those of Puerto Rico in la Casa Museo Filiberto Ojeda Ríos on September 23rd, 2023. This work includes a quote by Frantz Fanon. Yasmin's paintings, inspired by bioluminescence, use a palette informed by luciérnaga's or fireflies. Their colors red, black, yellow with green glow are also the colors selected by Marcus Garvey to represent black liberation. From left to right: Adolfo Matos Antongiorgi, Edwin Cortes, Masai Ehehosi, Jalil Abdul Muntaqim, Kazi Toure, Ashanti Omowali Alston; Jaan Karl Laaman, Luis Rosa, Jihad Abdulmumit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/126dc8e2-c534-40ec-96ec-1aa9f8ac820e/2024_PorLaLibre_YasminHernandezArt.AfroBoriLibertaria.jpg Art - Afro.Bori.Libertaria Yasmín Hernández, Por la libre”, (25 Years Home) 2024 Acrylic on Polytab cloth, 16” x 48” “Por la libre” was painted to commemorate 25 years since the September 10th, 1999 release of our ex-political prisoners. Also included in this image are Carlos Alberto Torres who wasn’t released until 2010 and Oscar Lopez Rivera, released in 2017. Among the group are our beloved ancestors Elizam Escobar who passed in 2021, and Dylcia Pagán who passed in 2004, a few months before the anniversary. Left to Right: Ida Luz Rodríguez, Edwin Cortés, Alejandrina Torres, Carlos Alberto Torres, Adolfo Matos Antongiorgi, Oscar López Rivera, Luis Rosa, Ricardo Jiménez, Alicia Rodríguez, Roberto Rodríguez, Carmen Valentín, Dylcia Pagán and Elizam Escobar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/126dc8e2-c534-40ec-96ec-1aa9f8ac820e/2024_PorLaLibre_YasminHernandezArt.AfroBoriLibertaria.jpg Art - Afro.Bori.Libertaria Yasmín Hernández, Por la libre”, (25 Years Home) 2024 Acrylic on Polytab cloth, 16” x 48” “Por la libre” was painted to commemorate 25 years since the September 10th, 1999 release of our ex-political prisoners. Also included in this image are Carlos Alberto Torres who wasn’t released until 2010 and Oscar Lopez Rivera, released in 2017. Among the group are our beloved ancestors Elizam Escobar who passed in 2021, and Dylcia Pagán who passed in 2004, a few months before the anniversary. Left to Right: Ida Luz Rodríguez, Edwin Cortés, Alejandrina Torres, Carlos Alberto Torres, Adolfo Matos Antongiorgi, Oscar López Rivera, Luis Rosa, Ricardo Jiménez, Alicia Rodríguez, Roberto Rodríguez, Carmen Valentín, Dylcia Pagán and Elizam Escobar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/a710ceb3-1416-4483-afd9-3959392a87e6/OposicionPatriotica_FOR_YasminHernandezArt2024.jpg Art - Afro.Bori.Libertaria Yasmín Hernández, “La oposición patriótica” 2024 Acrylic on polytab cloth, 66” x 50” “It is in great measure an abnormal situation. And it is abnormal in the first please by the very nature of the accuser, as with the accused. The accuser, the FBI, the government of the United States, the power which submerges this nation of ours in the rigors of a brutal colonialism, and its agency that historically has held the responsibility of eliminating the patriotic opposition.” -FOR This piece features the words of Filiberto Ojeda Ríos in his handwriting, taken from notes he had written during his trial. His handwriting was projected together with images of bullet holes that appear on the back wall of an adjacent space next to where this piece hangs. The purpose of the projections was to provide accuracy and not alter either of these. Creative license was indeed taken in painting the bullet holes in the colors of fireflies, red, black and green, transforming them with Filiberto’s message. It was designed to hang alongside the original site to offer a space for reflection next to one of the most energetically heavy spaces of the home and to not tamper with that original space. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/a710ceb3-1416-4483-afd9-3959392a87e6/OposicionPatriotica_FOR_YasminHernandezArt2024.jpg Art - Afro.Bori.Libertaria Yasmín Hernández, “La oposición patriótica” 2024 Acrylic on polytab cloth, 66” x 50” “It is in great measure an abnormal situation. And it is abnormal in the first place by the very nature of the accuser, as with the accused. The accuser, the FBI, the government of the United States, the power which submerges this nation of ours in the rigors of a brutal colonialism, and its agency that historically has held the responsibility of eliminating the patriotic opposition.” -FOR This piece features the words of Filiberto Ojeda Ríos in his own handwriting, taken from notes he had written during his trial. His handwriting was projected together with images of bullet holes that appear on the back wall of an adjacent space next to where this piece hangs. The purpose of the projections was to provide accuracy and not alter either of these. Creative license was indeed taken in painting the bullet holes in the colors of fireflies, red, black and green, transforming them with Filiberto’s message. Red and green also happen to be the colors of el Ejército Popular Boricua/ Los Macheteros, of which Filiberto was commander. It was designed to hang alongside the original site to offer a space for reflection next to one of the most energetically heavy spaces of the home and to not tamper with that original space. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/fdc99004-40f3-4bbc-9495-6c1828a190ec/DiceAFrica_DomingaDeLaCruz_YasminHernandezArt2024.jpg Art - Afro.Bori.Libertaria Yasmín Hernández “Dice África...”, (Africa says...) 2024 Acrylic and ink on polytab cloth, 36” x 30” “Porque como dice Africa, ¡la lucha continua!” This is a double portrait of Dominga de la Cruz Becerril (Ponce, 1909-1981), a member of the Nationalist party, she is most known for giving Pedro Albizu Campos the title “El Maestro,” and for rescuing the flag when it fell to the ground during the Ponce Massacre in 1937. A fierce revolutionary, she lived in exile in Mexico and Cuba where she was respected for her work towards Puerto Rican liberation. She was also received with acclaim in Moscow where she was given the medical care and rest she needed. This work is inspired by the biography shared in the book Dominga Rescues the Flag by Margaret Randall and Mariana McDonald. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/fdc99004-40f3-4bbc-9495-6c1828a190ec/DiceAFrica_DomingaDeLaCruz_YasminHernandezArt2024.jpg Art - Afro.Bori.Libertaria Yasmín Hernández “Dice África...”, (Africa says...) 2024 Acrylic and ink on polytab cloth, 36” x 30” “Porque como dice Africa, ¡la lucha continua!” This is a double portrait of Dominga de la Cruz Becerril (Ponce, 1909-1981), a member of the Nationalist Party, she is most known for giving Pedro Albizu Campos the title “El Maestro,” and for rescuing the flag when it fell to the ground during the Ponce Massacre in 1937. A fierce revolutionary, she lived in exile in Mexico and Cuba where she was respected for her work towards Puerto Rican liberation. She was also received with acclaim in Moscow where she was given the medical care and rest she needed. This work is inspired by the biography shared in the book Dominga Rescues the Flag by Margaret Randall and Mariana McDonald. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/1d33477b-84d6-4a1b-9776-37f05515183e/YasminHernandez.AfroBoriLibertaria.Garvey.Schomburg.lr.jpg Art - Afro.Bori.Libertaria Yasmín Hernández, “AfroAntillas” 2024 Acrylic on polytab cloth, 24” x 30 ¼” Portrait of Jamaican Pan African Nationalist, Marcus Garvey. It was Garvey through his work with the United Negro Improvement Association that decided on the colors red, black and green to represent the global Black Liberation Movement—colors seen on the flags of so many liberated republics across the continent of Africa. He stands together with Arturo Schomburg, historian, writer, collector, activist and “Father of Black Studies.” Born in Puerto Rico, he moved to New York where he became a figure of the Harlem Renaissance. His vast, internationally-renown collection on Black history is now the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem. Appearing on the painting are the maps of Africa, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and St. Croix (where Schomburg’s mother was born). The image is inspired by a detail of a photo of Garvey and Schomburg at the 1924 funeral of John Edward Bruce. Born into slavery, he was able to escape as a toddler with his mother after his father was sold away. A journalist and powerful voice for black liberation he became a father figure to Garvey and a mentor to Schomburg. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/1d33477b-84d6-4a1b-9776-37f05515183e/YasminHernandez.AfroBoriLibertaria.Garvey.Schomburg.lr.jpg Art - Afro.Bori.Libertaria Yasmín Hernández, “AfroAntillas” 2024 Acrylic on polytab cloth, 24” x 30 ¼” Portrait of Jamaican Pan African Nationalist, Marcus Garvey. It was Garvey through his work with the United Negro Improvement Association that decided on the colors red, black and green to represent the global Black Liberation Movement—colors seen on the flags of so many liberated republics across the continent of Africa. He stands together with Arturo Schomburg, historian, writer, collector, activist and “Father of Black Studies.” Born in Puerto Rico, he moved to New York where he became a figure of the Harlem Renaissance. His vast, internationally-renown collection on Black history is now the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem. Appearing on the painting are the maps of Africa, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and St. Croix (where Schomburg’s mother was born). The image is inspired by a detail of a photo of Garvey and Schomburg at the 1924 funeral of John Edward Bruce. Born into slavery, he was able to escape as a toddler with his mother after his father was sold away. A journalist and powerful voice for black liberation he became a father figure to Garvey and a mentor to Schomburg. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/6b74ae02-0df4-4855-969a-571a267e26b2/FireNextTime_PiriThomas_JamesBaldwin_YasminHernandezArt2024.jpg Art - Afro.Bori.Libertaria Yasmín Hernández “The Fire Next Time” 2024 (Piri Thomas and James Baldwin) Acrylic on polytab cloth, 30” x 36” “And behold the rainbow that is you.” -Piri Thomas from the poem “Softly Puerto Rican.” “God gave Noah the rainbow sign, no more water, the fire next time.” Inspired by a biblical verse and included at the opening to Baldwin’s “My Dungeon Shook” in the book of the same title as this painting. This work juxtaposes literary figures Piri Thomas (Cuban and Puerto Rican), poet, novelist, activist born in East Harlem in 1928, and James Baldwin (African American), novelist, essayist, playwright, activist, born in Harlem in 1924. Inspired by their writings aimed at young black and brown men, encouraging a love ethic in our communities, this work borrows its aesthetics from fireflies. The colors of these insects are also those named by Marcus Garvey to represent the Black Liberation Struggle globally. With this palette I affirm Puerto Rico’s position within the African Diaspora and with this project I celebrate our solidarity with other diasporic communities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/6b74ae02-0df4-4855-969a-571a267e26b2/FireNextTime_PiriThomas_JamesBaldwin_YasminHernandezArt2024.jpg Art - Afro.Bori.Libertaria Yasmín Hernández “The Fire Next Time” 2024 (Piri Thomas and James Baldwin) Acrylic on polytab cloth, 30” x 36” “And behold the rainbow that is you.” -Piri Thomas from the poem “Softly Puerto Rican.” “God gave Noah the rainbow sign, no more water, the fire next time.” -Inspired by a biblical verse and included at the opening to Baldwin’s “My Dungeon Shook” in the book of the same title as this painting. This work juxtaposes literary figures Piri Thomas (Cuban and Puerto Rican), poet, novelist, activist born in East Harlem in 1928, and James Baldwin (African American), novelist, essayist, playwright, activist, born in Harlem in 1924. Inspired by their writings aimed at young black and brown men, encouraging a love ethic in our communities, this work borrows its aesthetics from fireflies. With this palette I affirm Puerto Rico’s position within the African Diaspora and with this project I celebrate our solidarity with other diasporic communities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/f1032043-70ae-4400-ad79-5af94802d6de/FireNextTime.BaldwinDetail.YasminHernandezArt2024.jpg Art - Afro.Bori.Libertaria Yasmín Hernández, James Baldwin detail, “The Fire Next Time” 2024 Acrylic on polytab cloth, 30” x 36” This detail of James Baldwin featured a quote from his book, No name in the Street which is found in the library collection of Filiberto Ojeda Ríos. “Ask any Mexican, any Puerto Rican, any black man, any poor person - ask the wretched how they fare in the halls of justice, and then you will know, not whether or not the country is just, but whether or not it has any love for justice, or any concept of it. It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/f1032043-70ae-4400-ad79-5af94802d6de/FireNextTime.BaldwinDetail.YasminHernandezArt2024.jpg Art - Afro.Bori.Libertaria Yasmín Hernández, James Baldwin detail, “The Fire Next Time” 2024 Acrylic on polytab cloth, 30” x 36” This detail of James Baldwin features a quote from his book, No name in the Street which is found in the library collection of Filiberto Ojeda Ríos. “Ask any Mexican, any Puerto Rican, any black man, any poor person - ask the wretched how they fare in the halls of justice, and then you will know, not whether or not the country is just, but whether or not it has any love for justice, or any concept of it. It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” https://yasminhernandez.art/art/puerto-rican-liberation monthly 0.5 2025-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/1734568066962-DL8TY8W1ASYJJ6JSF6FL/BlancaCanales.Soldadera.YasminHernandez.wm.jpg Art - Puerto Rican Liberation Follow the Leader, 1998 (Pedro Albizu Campos). Yasmin Hernandez. Oil on canvas, 30" x 24". Living and working in Philadelphia during the centennial, I contemplated the invasion of my nation within sites like the Liberty Belly, altars to the independence of the imperialist. I began envisioning altars to our own liberation. This piece is born from that envisioning. The title always reminds me of the rap "Follow the Leader" by Rakim (...Remember, you're not a slave 'Cause we was put here to be much more than that/ But we couldn't see it because our mind was trapped.) I returned to New York in 1999 during the escalation of the movements for peace and justice on Vieques and the excarceration of our Puerto Rican Political Prisoners. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/1734568066962-DL8TY8W1ASYJJ6JSF6FL/BlancaCanales.Soldadera.YasminHernandez.wm.jpg Art - Puerto Rican Liberation "Soldaderas: Blanca Canales", 2021. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on brown paper, 48”x 36”. Ten years since my Soldaderas mural, I contemplated Puerto Rican women fighting US imperialism. Blanca Canales Torresola was the leader of the 1950 revolution that began in her hometown of Jayuya and spread throughout the main island of Puerto Rico. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/1734568104723-11B8U1958UKP0YLZZB37/Lolita.Lebron.Soldadera.wm.jpg Art - Puerto Rican Liberation "Soldadera: Lolita Lebron:" 2021, Acrylic on Brown Paper, 55”x36”. Contemplating ten years since my Soldaderas mural, I began this series of women fighting continued US imperialism. Lolita Lebrón Sotomayor was born on November 19, historic day of Columbus’ 1493 landing. Born in the mountain town of Lares, site of the 1868 revolution, she was destined to be a Soldadera. A member of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, Lolita is most known for leading an armed revolt at the US Capitol on March 1st, 1954, for which she was held for 25 years as a Political Prisoner of the US on sedition charges. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/1734568104723-11B8U1958UKP0YLZZB37/Lolita.Lebron.Soldadera.wm.jpg Art - Puerto Rican Liberation "Soldadera: Lolita Lebron:" 2021, Acrylic on Brown Paper, 55”x36”. Contemplating ten years since my Soldaderas mural, I began this series of women fighting continued US imperialism. Lolita Lebrón Sotomayor was born on November 19, historic day of Columbus’ 1493 landing. Born in the mountain town of Lares, site of the 1868 revolution, she was destined to be a Soldadera. A member of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, Lolita is most known for leading an armed revolt at the US Capitol on March 1st, 1954, for which she was held for 25 years as a Political Prisoner of the US on sedition charges. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/86fb6648-f1a4-4b13-a0a2-b766d5fad54c/2017YasminHernandezArt_Dignity_Dissent.jpg Art - Puerto Rican Liberation "Dignity/ Dissent" (Pedro Albizu Campos) 2017, Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on canvas, 12" x 12". Created for the CitiCien Defend PR exhibition, commemorating 100 years of the Jones Act that imposed US citizenship on Puerto Rico, strategically the same year the US entered WWI, enabling the draft of our men. Nationalist Party leader Pedro Albizu Campos is pictured here in his US Army uniform that same year and later in a gesture representing his fierce fight against US colonialism. The background image in black and white is of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party flag. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/86fb6648-f1a4-4b13-a0a2-b766d5fad54c/2017YasminHernandezArt_Dignity_Dissent.jpg Art - Puerto Rican Liberation "Dignity/ Dissent" (Pedro Albizu Campos) 2017, Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on canvas, 12" x 12". Created for the CitiCien Defend PR exhibition, commemorating 100 years of the Jones Act that imposed US citizenship on Puerto Rico, strategically the same year the US entered WWI, enabling the draft of our men. Nationalist Party leader Pedro Albizu Campos is pictured here in his US Army uniform that same year and later in a gesture representing his fierce fight against US colonialism. The background image in black and white is of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party flag. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/4741ba05-8076-4d59-9daf-bac62c78af53/2016YasminHernandezArtLaLibertad.jpg Art - Puerto Rican Liberation "La Libertad" (Oscar López Rivera) 2016. Yasmin Hernandez. Mixed media on canvas, 24" x 36". Created for the traveling exhibition, Una Sola Voz which brought together over 50 artists in support of the release of Puerto Rican Political Prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera, pictured here among many other heroes that have defended Puerto Rico's natural right to liberation. Included is an excerpt of our original revolutionary anthem, La Borinqueña by Lola Rodríguez de Tío. "Vamonos ya que nos espera ansiosa la Libertad". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/4741ba05-8076-4d59-9daf-bac62c78af53/2016YasminHernandezArtLaLibertad.jpg Art - Puerto Rican Liberation "La Libertad" (Oscar López Rivera) 2016. Yasmin Hernandez. Mixed media on canvas, 24" x 36". Created for the traveling exhibition, Una Sola Voz which brought together over 50 artists in support of the release of Puerto Rican Political Prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera, pictured here among many other heroes that have defended Puerto Rico's natural right to liberation. Included is an excerpt of our original revolutionary anthem, La Borinqueña by Lola Rodríguez de Tío. "Vamonos ya que nos espera ansiosa la Libertad". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/19c4e327-8a44-4b89-a685-53b5f3237a73/2017YasminHernandezArtDedebtDecolonize.jpg Art - Puerto Rican Liberation "Dedebt/ Decolonize" 2017. Yasmin Hernandez. Mixed media on canvas, 18" x 14". Commissioned for Occupy Museum’s Debt Fair installation at the 2017 Whitney Biennial. The Puerto Rican archipelago is presented within a nebula. From the main island emerges the face of Oscar López Rivera, held as a Political Prisoner of the US for 35 years on sedition charges for participating in the Puerto Rican liberation struggle. His sentence was commuted by US President Obama 1 week after I completed this work. The work was still on exhibit at the Whitney when Oscar was released in May of 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/19c4e327-8a44-4b89-a685-53b5f3237a73/2017YasminHernandezArtDedebtDecolonize.jpg Art - Puerto Rican Liberation "Dedebt/ Decolonize" 2017. Yasmin Hernandez. Mixed media on canvas, 18" x 14". Commissioned for Occupy Museum’s Debt Fair installation at the 2017 Whitney Biennial. The Puerto Rican archipelago is presented within a nebula. From the main island emerges the face of Oscar López Rivera, held as a Political Prisoner of the US for 35 years on sedition charges for participating in the Puerto Rican liberation struggle. His sentence was commuted by US President Obama 1 week after I completed this work. The work was still on exhibit at the Whitney when Oscar was released in May of 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/83502303-e690-4485-be5b-915f801fb941/2016YasminHernandezartllamamoslalibertad.jpg Art - Puerto Rican Liberation "Eso que llamamos la libertad", 2016. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on canvas, 30" x 24". Portrait of artist, poet, professor, former Puerto Rican political prisoner Elizam Escobar. I included a quote I heard during his presentation at a political prisoner conference in Mayagüez: "That which we call freedom is not a state of being, it is a practice." I painted him dressed in a nebula to reference the transcendence and liberatory practice embodied by Elizam in his art, actions, and words. Elizam left this realm in January of 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/83502303-e690-4485-be5b-915f801fb941/2016YasminHernandezartllamamoslalibertad.jpg Art - Puerto Rican Liberation "Eso que llamamos la libertad", 2016. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on canvas, 30" x 24". Portrait of artist, poet, professor, former Puerto Rican political prisoner Elizam Escobar. I included a quote I heard during his presentation at a political prisoner conference in Mayagüez: "That which we call freedom is not a state of being, it is a practice." I painted him dressed in a nebula to reference the transcendence and liberatory practice embodied by Elizam in his art, actions, and words. Elizam left this realm in January of 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/1cd32c05-23f8-40b0-a3c7-9fef1e933ef6/20164esquinasYasminHernandez.jpg Art - Puerto Rican Liberation “Las Cuatro Esquinas” 2016. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on recycled palette wood. Detail of collaborative installation at the former Galería Betances, Mayagüez, PR. This image was part of a tribute exhibition to 19th century Puerto Rican Revolutionary, Abolitionist, Dr. Ramón Emeterio Betances. It includes a recreation of the Lares flag that he designed for the September 23rd, 1868 revolution that he authored representations of enslaved people who were emancipated on March 22nd, 1873, thanks to his abolition work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/1cd32c05-23f8-40b0-a3c7-9fef1e933ef6/20164esquinasYasminHernandez.jpg Art - Puerto Rican Liberation “Las Cuatro Esquinas” 2016. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on recycled palette wood. Detail of collaborative installation at the former Galería Betances, Mayagüez, PR. This image was part of a tribute exhibition to 19th century Puerto Rican Revolutionary, Abolitionist, Dr. Ramón Emeterio Betances. It includes a recreation of the Lares flag that he designed for the September 23rd, 1868 revolution that he authored representations of enslaved people who were emancipated on March 22nd, 1873, thanks to his abolition work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/0730c45d-d549-4316-894c-d9fb7f49446d/2015YasminHernandezArtEsasestrellas.jpg Art - Puerto Rican Liberation "Esas estrellas" 2015. Yasmin Hernandez. 2015, Acrylic on burlap, approx 30" x 39" Tribute to Rafael Cancel Miranda, former political prisoner who served 25 years on sedition charges for his participation in an armed revolt in Washington DC in 1954. The quote comes from the dedication of his book, Mis Dioses llevan tu Nombre (2000). “Hay estrellas en el cielo que no vemos porque no las buscamos. La razón de este libro es ayudar a encontrar a esas estrellas en nuestros propios cielos.” (There are stars in the sky that we do not see because we do not seek them. The reason for this book is to help find those stars in our own skies.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/0730c45d-d549-4316-894c-d9fb7f49446d/2015YasminHernandezArtEsasestrellas.jpg Art - Puerto Rican Liberation "Esas estrellas" 2015. Yasmin Hernandez. 2015, Acrylic on burlap, approx 30" x 39" Tribute to Rafael Cancel Miranda, former political prisoner who served 25 years on sedition charges for his participation in an armed revolt in Washington DC in 1954. The quote comes from the dedication of his book, Mis Dioses llevan tu Nombre (2000). “Hay estrellas en el cielo que no vemos porque no las buscamos. La razón de este libro es ayudar a encontrar a esas estrellas en nuestros propios cielos.” (There are stars in the sky that we do not see because we do not seek them. The reason for this book is to help find those stars in our own skies.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/49cee8bb-7c3e-4fb9-9ad6-d37a332b77ea/2015YasminHernandezArtSomosMuchos.jpg Art - Puerto Rican Liberation "Somos Muchos" (Oscar López Rivera) Yasmin Hernandez. 2015, Mixed media on canvas, 30" x 24". Commissioned for the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez’ conference, Luchas de Ayer, Ahora y Siempre (?) on Puerto Rican political prisoners past and present. Oscar López Rivera is presented among a selection of ancestors who sacrificed their lives for the liberation of Puerto Rico. Within his portrait we see a selection of the comrades who, like him, have served as political prisoners for wanting the freedom of their country. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/49cee8bb-7c3e-4fb9-9ad6-d37a332b77ea/2015YasminHernandezArtSomosMuchos.jpg Art - Puerto Rican Liberation "Somos Muchos" (Oscar López Rivera) Yasmin Hernandez. 2015, Mixed media on canvas, 30" x 24". Commissioned for the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez’ conference, Luchas de Ayer, Ahora y Siempre (?) on Puerto Rican political prisoners past and present. Oscar López Rivera is presented among a selection of ancestors who sacrificed their lives for the liberation of Puerto Rico. Within his portrait we see a selection of the comrades who, like him, have served as political prisoners for wanting the freedom of their country. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/c9bbdb96-42da-43e8-9b59-bfa01bc31ae6/2015YasminHernandezArtQuienesSomos.jpg Art - Puerto Rican Liberation “Quienes Somos/ Who we are”. Superimposed over the "Somos Muchos" painting are the names of all the Puerto Rican freedom fighters collaged into this portrait of former Puerto Rican political prisoner of 35 years, Oscar López Rivera. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/c9bbdb96-42da-43e8-9b59-bfa01bc31ae6/2015YasminHernandezArtQuienesSomos.jpg Art - Puerto Rican Liberation “Quienes Somos/ Who we are”. Superimposed over the "Somos Muchos" painting are the names of all the Puerto Rican freedom fighters collaged into this portrait of former Puerto Rican political prisoner of 35 years, Oscar López Rivera. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/553845b3-3dee-4de1-9f7b-787d99fd1409/2006YasminHernandezArt_Dylcia.jpg Art - Puerto Rican Liberation "Querer ser libre" (Dylcia Pagán) 2006. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic, seashells and peacock feathers on canvas. 24" x 36". This portrait was commissioned for a tribute to former Puerto Rican political prisoner Dylcia Pagán by the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance (BAAD). My dear friend and mentor, I painted her as I remembered during an afternoon we spent at the sea, behind her home in Loíza. This portrait hung in her living room until her unexpected transition into ancestorhood in 2024. The quote is of Ramón Emeterio Betances, (The desire to be free is to begin being free). I am ever grateful to the freedom she embodied and modelled for us all and to the fierce love she shined on me and so many of my generation, and beyond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/553845b3-3dee-4de1-9f7b-787d99fd1409/2006YasminHernandezArt_Dylcia.jpg Art - Puerto Rican Liberation "Querer ser libre" (Dylcia Pagán) 2006. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic, seashells and peacock feathers on canvas. 24" x 36". This portrait was commissioned for a tribute to former Puerto Rican political prisoner Dylcia Pagán by the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance (BAAD). My dear friend and mentor, I painted her as I remembered during an afternoon we spent at the sea, behind her home in Loíza. This portrait hung in her living room until her unexpected transition into ancestorhood in 2024. The quote is of Ramón Emeterio Betances, (The desire to be free is to begin being free). I am ever grateful to the freedom she embodied and modelled for us all and to the fierce love she shined on me and so many of my generation, and beyond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/c51d8b04-8804-40da-944b-489e4777ce3c/2006YasminHernandezArt_RaisingRevolution.jpg Art - Puerto Rican Liberation "Raising Revolution" 2004, (Pedro Albizu Campos). Yasmin Hernandez. Mixed media on canvas, 48" x 30" Collection of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies. This portrait of Pedro Albizu Campos shows him in his US Army uniform, but the piece itself focuses on many revolutionaries who received their training in either the US military or US schools. Puerto Ricans were made citizens of the US in 1917, strategically the year the US entered WWI. However, as a colony, Puerto Rico cannot vote in presidential elections, having no say in the commander of chief of the many who serve the US armed forces. Many have subverted this military training, using it instead to inform their liberation work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/c51d8b04-8804-40da-944b-489e4777ce3c/2006YasminHernandezArt_RaisingRevolution.jpg Art - Puerto Rican Liberation "Raising Revolution" 2004, (Pedro Albizu Campos). Yasmin Hernandez. Mixed media on canvas, 48" x 30" Collection of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies. This portrait of Pedro Albizu Campos shows him in his US Army uniform, but the piece itself focuses on many revolutionaries who received their training in either the US military or US schools. Puerto Ricans were made citizens of the US in 1917, strategically the year the US entered WWI. However, as a colony, Puerto Rico cannot vote in presidential elections, having no say in the commander of chief of the many who serve the US armed forces. Many have subverted this military training, using it instead to inform their liberation work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/58bce442-e634-4c7b-9f15-450c2cd3fb3e/YasminHernandez_PesarYOrgullodelaRevolucionaria.jpg Art - Puerto Rican Liberation "Pesar y orgullo" 2004. Yasmin Hernandez. Mixed media on canvas, 48" x 24". This portrait of Puerto Rican Nationalist Lolita Lebrón shows her at the time of her arrest having led an armed protest at the US Capitol on March 1, 1954. She is nude with prison bars glazed over her flesh, marking the double standard imposed on women revolutionaries and the violation of their bodies as political prisoners. The collage features revolutionary women of color. This piece was in response to the 2004 Washington Post Magazine article with Lolita’s image on the cover and the title: When Terror Wore Lipstick. I was asked to contribute artwork to that article. I asked for assurance that she would not be presented in a negative light then was mortified when it was published with that cover. In a public chat with the author, people criticized Lolita for abandoning her children, making references to domestic responsibilities that male revolutionaries are never challenged on. With this work, I contemplated her body as a cell, a site of oppression that the empire wages violence on. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/58bce442-e634-4c7b-9f15-450c2cd3fb3e/YasminHernandez_PesarYOrgullodelaRevolucionaria.jpg Art - Puerto Rican Liberation "Pesar y orgullo" 2004. Yasmin Hernandez. Mixed media on canvas, 48" x 24". This portrait of Puerto Rican Nationalist Lolita Lebrón shows her at the time of her arrest having led an armed protest at the US Capitol on March 1, 1954. She is nude with prison bars glazed over her flesh, marking the double standard imposed on women revolutionaries and the violation of their bodies as political prisoners. The collage features revolutionary women of color. This piece was in response to the 2004 Washington Post Magazine article with Lolita’s image on the cover and the title: When Terror Wore Lipstick. I was asked to contribute artwork to that article. I asked for assurance that she would not be presented in a negative light then was mortified when it was published with that cover. In a public chat with the author, people criticized Lolita for abandoning her children, making references to domestic responsibilities that male revolutionaries are never challenged on. With this work, I contemplated her body as a cell, a site of oppression that the empire wages violence on. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/20cd318e-e01b-4e1b-ba9f-74ab12f9b0aa/2004YasminHernandezArtSinMiedo.jpg Art - Puerto Rican Liberation "Sin Miedo" (Para Lolita). 2003. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on canvas, 36" x 18". Collection of Poet/ Author Luivette Resto. This is another portrait of a fearless Lolita Lebrón at the time of her arrest on March 1, 1954 after leading an armed protest over a meeting of the US House of Representatives, demanding a Free Puerto Rico. Lolita & her comrades served 25 years before US President Jimmy Carter (the most honest US president) commuted their sentences in 1979. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/20cd318e-e01b-4e1b-ba9f-74ab12f9b0aa/2004YasminHernandezArtSinMiedo.jpg Art - Puerto Rican Liberation "Sin Miedo" (Para Lolita). 2003. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on canvas, 36" x 18". Collection of Poet/ Author Luivette Resto. This is another portrait of a fearless Lolita Lebrón at the time of her arrest on March 1, 1954 after leading an armed protest over a meeting of the US House of Representatives, demanding a Free Puerto Rico. Lolita & her comrades served 25 years before US President Jimmy Carter (the most honest US president) commuted their sentences in 1979. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/885f4d4b-c051-4aa3-9c3d-eb8028afdf7b/2006AlbizuElevao.jpg Art - Puerto Rican Liberation Albizu Elevao. 2006. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on Burlap, 72" x 39 1/2". “Ay como lo escupieron/ Como lo empujaron/ Como lo llevaron a crucificar....” -excerpt from the salsa song "El Todopoderoso" (Oh how they spit on him, how they pushed him, how they took him to crucifixion). This work references the radiation experiments that the US government conducted on the father of Puerto Rican Nationalism Pedro Albizu Campos. These were secretly administered in the form of bright white or multicolored lights that would flash in his cell & in his hospital room. Albizu suffered burns & seizures, ultimately passing from cancer in 1965. Albizu had exposed US Dr. Cornelius Rhoads who had deliberately injected cancer into Puerto Ricans. For this and other cancer and chemical experiments he conducted in the US prison system, Dr. Rhoads was named Time Magazine’s “Man of the Year” and became director of the Rockefeller Institute and the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/885f4d4b-c051-4aa3-9c3d-eb8028afdf7b/2006AlbizuElevao.jpg Art - Puerto Rican Liberation "Albizu Elevao." 2006. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on Burlap, 72" x 39 1/2". “Ay como lo escupieron/ Como lo empujaron/ Como lo llevaron a crucificar....” -excerpt from the salsa song "El Todopoderoso" (Oh how they spit on him, how they pushed him, how they took him to crucifixion). This work references the radiation experiments that the US government conducted on the father of Puerto Rican Nationalism Pedro Albizu Campos. These were secretly administered in the form of bright white or multicolored lights that would flash in his cell & in his hospital room. Albizu suffered burns & seizures, ultimately passing from cancer in 1965. Albizu had exposed US Dr. Cornelius Rhoads who had deliberately injected cancer into Puerto Ricans. For this and other cancer and chemical experiments he conducted in the US prison system, Dr. Rhoads was named Time Magazine’s “Man of the Year” and became director of the Rockefeller Institute and the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/ac119771-4cf2-4079-b144-23f4f392d4de/2006YasminHernandezArtPatriaEnsangrentada.jpg Art - Puerto Rican Liberation “Patria Ensangrentada” (Filiberto Ojeda Ríos). 2006. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on canvas, 63" x 40". Patria Ensangrentada pero jamás desecha. (Nation bloodied, but never undone). These words of Puerto Rican Nationalist poet Julia de Burgos come from her poem”23 de septiembre,” about the 1868 Lares revolution. On the same date in 2005, the FBI assassinated revolutionary leader of Los Macheteros, Filiberto Ojeda Rios, who had been in clandestinity for 15 years. 72 years-old at the time, he solely held a shoot-out with them wearing a bullet proof vest, but was left to bleed to death behind his front door from a single bullet to his clavicle, something he should have survived. The town had been under siege in the planned attack on his home in Hormigueros. No ambulances were allowed to pass. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/ac119771-4cf2-4079-b144-23f4f392d4de/2006YasminHernandezArtPatriaEnsangrentada.jpg Art - Puerto Rican Liberation “Patria Ensangrentada” (Filiberto Ojeda Ríos). 2006. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on canvas, 63" x 40". Patria Ensangrentada pero jamás desecha. (Nation bloodied, but never undone). These words of Puerto Rican Nationalist poet Julia de Burgos come from her poem”23 de septiembre,” about the 1868 Lares revolution. On the same date in 2005, the FBI assassinated revolutionary leader of Los Macheteros, Filiberto Ojeda Rios, who had been in clandestinity for 15 years. 72 years-old at the time, he solely held a shoot-out with them wearing a bullet proof vest, but was left to bleed to death behind his front door from a single bullet to his clavicle, something he should have survived. The town had been under siege in the planned attack on his home in Hormigueros. No ambulances were allowed to pass. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/da01a501-f023-495e-a9e9-71665a332ead/1998IndependenceDay_YasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Puerto Rican Liberation “Independence Day,” 1998. Yasmin Hernandez. Mixed media on canvas, 6' x 4'. Created for the AmeRican Borders centennial of the US invasion of Puerto Rico exhibition at Taller Puertorriqueño in Philadelphia. This scene depicts the arrests of the 4 Puerto Rican Nationalists outside of the US capitol on March 1st, 1954, with a Puerto Rican flag glazed over the building. The background is an inverted copy of the US Constitution & the foreground, which they stand on, is an inverted copy of the US Declaration of Independence. I lived 5 blocks from Independence Hall in Philly at the time. Almost ten years after painting this, while researching the ARCHIVOS SUBVERSIVOS project at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, I found a letter that Albizu Campos wrote to his friend Ruth Reynolds, on a torn out page of the Table of Contents of the US Constitution. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/da01a501-f023-495e-a9e9-71665a332ead/1998IndependenceDay_YasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Puerto Rican Liberation “Independence Day,” 1998. Yasmin Hernandez. Mixed media on canvas, 6' x 4'. Created for the AmeRican Borders centennial of the US invasion of Puerto Rico exhibition at Taller Puertorriqueño in Philadelphia. This scene depicts the arrests of the 4 Puerto Rican Nationalists outside of the US capitol on March 1st, 1954, with a Puerto Rican flag glazed over the building. The background is an inverted copy of the US Constitution & the foreground, which they stand on, is an inverted copy of the US Declaration of Independence. I lived 5 blocks from Independence Hall in Philly at the time. Almost ten years after painting this, while researching the ARCHIVOS SUBVERSIVOS project at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, I found a letter that Albizu Campos wrote to his friend Ruth Reynolds, on a torn out page of the Table of Contents of the US Constitution. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/9f44e7de-93a0-486b-9cad-4fab190c33a1/follow.jpg Art - Puerto Rican Liberation Follow the Leader, 1998 (Pedro Albizu Campos). Yasmin Hernandez. Oil on canvas, 30" x 24". Living and working in Philadelphia during the centennial, I contemplated the invasion of my nation within sites like the Liberty Belly, altars to the independence of the imperialist. I began envisioning altars to our own liberation. This piece is born from that envisioning. The title always reminds me of the rap "Follow the Leader" by Rakim (...Remember, you're not a slave 'Cause we was put here to be much more than that/ But we couldn't see it because our mind was trapped.) I returned to New York in 1999 during the escalation of the movements for peace and justice on Vieques and the excarceration of our Puerto Rican Political Prisoners. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/9f44e7de-93a0-486b-9cad-4fab190c33a1/follow.jpg Art - Puerto Rican Liberation Follow the Leader, 1998 (Pedro Albizu Campos). Yasmin Hernandez. Oil on canvas, 30" x 24". Living and working in Philadelphia during the centennial, I contemplated the invasion of my nation within sites like the Liberty Belly, altars to the independence of the imperialist. I began envisioning altars to our own liberation. This piece is born from that envisioning. The title always reminds me of the rap "Follow the Leader" by Rakim (...Remember, you're not a slave 'Cause we was put here to be much more than that/ But we couldn't see it because our mind was trapped.) I returned to New York in 1999 during the escalation of the movements for peace and justice on Vieques and the excarceration of our Puerto Rican Political Prisoners. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/15374e7e-dacb-4147-97bc-8f78403a4ed5/Ponce+Massacre.jpg Art - Puerto Rican Liberation “The Ponce Massacre”, 1997. Yasmin Hernandez. Oil, collage on canvas, 51" x 34". Part of my BFA Thesis exhibition at Cornell University, created in the underpainting/ glaze technique, this image borrows from the composition of Paul Revere's “The Bloody Massacre” of 1770, depicting the Boston Massacre leading to the American Revolution. The Ponce Massacre, took place on March 21st, 1937 in my parents' hometown, when the US colonial police chief revoked a parade permit on Palm Sunday commemorating the abolition of slavery. When the people marched anyway, the police opened fire on them killing 21 & wounding around 200. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/15374e7e-dacb-4147-97bc-8f78403a4ed5/Ponce+Massacre.jpg Art - Puerto Rican Liberation “The Ponce Massacre”, 1997. Yasmin Hernandez. Oil, collage on canvas, 51" x 34". Part of my BFA Thesis exhibition at Cornell University, created in the underpainting/ glaze technique, this image borrows from the composition of Paul Revere's “The Bloody Massacre” of 1770, depicting the Boston Massacre leading to the American Revolution. The Ponce Massacre, took place on March 21st, 1937 in my parents' hometown, when the US colonial police chief revoked a parade permit on Palm Sunday commemorating the abolition of slavery. When the people marched anyway, the police opened fire on them killing 21 & wounding around 200. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/62cb00d8-53b9-460a-91b2-bb2e55c67a95/1996YasminHernandezArtEstadista.jpg Art - Puerto Rican Liberation “¿Estadista?” 1996. Yasmin Hernandez. Mixed media on canvas, 48" x 32". This is one of various flags painted on canvas with grommets. The indigenous figure of Atabey and the fetus reference the mass sterilization of Puerto Rican women. Albizu and the group of striking laborers are juxtaposed with images of the Latin Kings. As I embarked on a self-education process on our subversive history as an undergrad at the libraries of Cornell University, my cousin and uncle did the same with The Latin Kings and the Ñetas while incarcerated. This piece honors our diverse paths towards decolonization and denounces statehood as something that impedes that process. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/62cb00d8-53b9-460a-91b2-bb2e55c67a95/1996YasminHernandezArtEstadista.jpg Art - Puerto Rican Liberation “¿Estadista?” 1996. Yasmin Hernandez. Mixed media on canvas, 48" x 32". This is one of various flags painted on canvas with grommets. The indigenous figure of Atabey and the fetus reference the mass sterilization of Puerto Rican women. Albizu and the group of striking laborers are juxtaposed with images of the Latin Kings. As I embarked on a self-education process on our subversive history as an undergrad at the libraries of Cornell University, my cousin and uncle did the same with The Latin Kings and the Ñetas while incarcerated. This piece honors our diverse paths towards decolonization and denounces statehood as something that impedes that process. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/6eedd85b-de03-40fb-9322-287fa82c16c5/1995YasminHernandezArt51st+state.jpg Art - Puerto Rican Liberation “51st State”, 1995. Yasmin Hernandez. Oil on canvas. 48" x 37 1/2". Painted during my junior year/ BFA program at Cornell University. 51st State is technically my first portrait of the 4 Nationalists arrested in Washington on March 1st, 1954. Lolita Lebrón is the star and Rafael Cancel Miranda, Irving Flores, and Andres Figueroa Cordero are the rifles. Together they dissolve the colonial relationship of Puerto Rico and the US, hence the falling stars and the Navy blue of both flags. My earlier political works use the dark blue of the US flag and over time lighten to the sky blue used by independence supporters. The original concept of our flag, designed as an inverse of the Cuban flag in New York in the 1890s via the Puerto Rican Wing of the Cuban Revolutionary Party references the sky in its inspiration. After the 1898 invasion, our flag was darkened to resemble that of the US. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/6eedd85b-de03-40fb-9322-287fa82c16c5/1995YasminHernandezArt51st+state.jpg Art - Puerto Rican Liberation “51st State”, 1995. Yasmin Hernandez. Oil on canvas. 48" x 37 1/2". Painted during my junior year/ BFA program at Cornell University. 51st State is technically my first portrait of the 4 Nationalists arrested in Washington on March 1st, 1954. Lolita Lebrón is the star and Rafael Cancel Miranda, Irving Flores, and Andres Figueroa Cordero are the rifles. Together they dissolve the colonial relationship of Puerto Rico and the US, hence the falling stars and the Navy blue of both flags. My earlier political works use the dark blue of the US flag and over time lighten to the sky blue used by independence supporters. The original concept of our flag, designed as an inverse of the Cuban flag in New York in the 1890s via the Puerto Rican Wing of the Cuban Revolutionary Party references the sky in its inspiration. After the 1898 invasion, our flag was darkened to resemble that of the US. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/cc7f78b1-12de-4152-90d5-ad56c2aab417/1994YasminHernandezArtAlbizucampos.jpg Art - Puerto Rican Liberation “Pedro Albizu Campos,” 1994. Yasmin Hernandez. Silkscreen on Paper, 14" x 8". This first portrait of mine of Pedro Albizu Campos was inspired by the book Prisoners of Colonialism by Ronald Fernandez. I was 19 and eagerly researching all things Don Pedro. My practice of painting in response to my self-education around suppressed Puerto Rican histories began in high school, however my introduction to this history didn’t begin with books but with the oral histories of my father. Black and white are the colors of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/cc7f78b1-12de-4152-90d5-ad56c2aab417/1994YasminHernandezArtAlbizucampos.jpg Art - Puerto Rican Liberation “Pedro Albizu Campos,” 1994. Yasmin Hernandez. Silkscreen on Paper, 14" x 8". This first portrait of mine of Pedro Albizu Campos was inspired by the book Prisoners of Colonialism by Ronald Fernandez. I was 19 and eagerly researching all things Don Pedro. My practice of painting in response to my self-education around suppressed Puerto Rican histories began in high school, however my introduction to this history didn’t begin with books but with the oral histories of my father. Black and white are the colors of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party. https://yasminhernandez.art/art/calligraphy monthly 0.5 2025-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/6b74ae02-0df4-4855-969a-571a267e26b2/FireNextTime_PiriThomas_JamesBaldwin_YasminHernandezArt2024.jpg Art - Calligraphy “The Fire Next Time” 2024, (Piri Thomas and James Baldwin), Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on polytab cloth, 30” x 36”. “And behold the rainbow that is you.” -Piri Thomas from the poem “Softly Puerto Rican” ; “God gave Noah the rainbow sign, no more water, the fire next time.” Inspired by a biblical verse and included at the opening to Baldwin’s “My Dungeon Shook” in the book of the same title as this painting…. This work juxtaposes literary figures Piri Thomas (Cuban and Puerto Rican), poet, novelist, activist born in East Harlem in 1928, and James Baldwin (African American), novelist, essayist, playwright, activist, born in Harlem in 1924. From Afro.Bori.Libertaria, my art series in collaboration with painter S. Damary Burgos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/6b74ae02-0df4-4855-969a-571a267e26b2/FireNextTime_PiriThomas_JamesBaldwin_YasminHernandezArt2024.jpg Art - Calligraphy “The Fire Next Time” 2024, (Piri Thomas and James Baldwin), Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on polytab cloth, 30” x 36”. “And behold the rainbow that is you.” -Piri Thomas from the poem “Softly Puerto Rican” ; “God gave Noah the rainbow sign, no more water, the fire next time.” Inspired by a biblical verse and included at the opening to Baldwin’s “My Dungeon Shook” in the book of the same title as this painting…. This work juxtaposes literary figures Piri Thomas (Cuban and Puerto Rican), poet, novelist, activist born in East Harlem in 1928, and James Baldwin (African American), novelist, essayist, playwright, activist, born in Harlem in 1924. From Afro.Bori.Libertaria, my art series in collaboration with painter S. Damary Burgos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/fdc99004-40f3-4bbc-9495-6c1828a190ec/DiceAFrica_DomingaDeLaCruz_YasminHernandezArt2024.jpg Art - Calligraphy “Dice África...,” (Africa says...) 2024. Yasmín Hernández. Acrylic and ink on polytab cloth, 36” x 30”. “Porque como dice África, ¡la lucha continua!” This is a double portrait of Dominga de la Cruz Becerril (Ponce, 1909-1981), a member of the Nationalist party, she is most known for giving Pedro Albizu Campos the title “El Maestro,” and for rescuing the Puerto Rican flag when it fell to the ground during the Ponce Massacre in 1937. A fierce revolutionary, she lived in exile in Mexico and Cuba where she was respected for her work towards Puerto Rican liberation. This work is inspired by the biography shared in the book Dominga Rescues the Flag by Margaret Randall and Mariana McDonald. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/fdc99004-40f3-4bbc-9495-6c1828a190ec/DiceAFrica_DomingaDeLaCruz_YasminHernandezArt2024.jpg Art - Calligraphy “Dice África...,” (Africa says...) 2024. Yasmín Hernández. Acrylic and ink on polytab cloth, 36” x 30”. “Porque como dice África, ¡la lucha continua!” This is a double portrait of Dominga de la Cruz Becerril (Ponce, 1909-1981), a member of the Nationalist party, she is most known for giving Pedro Albizu Campos the title “El Maestro,” and for rescuing the Puerto Rican flag when it fell to the ground during the Ponce Massacre in 1937. A fierce revolutionary, she lived in exile in Mexico and Cuba where she was respected for her work towards Puerto Rican liberation. This work is inspired by the biography shared in the book Dominga Rescues the Flag by Margaret Randall and Mariana McDonald. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/1753569335745-WFN6F18SMAEIVG3GXQKI/Meli_RematriatingBoriken_YasminHernandezArt2024.jpg Art - Calligraphy "Reclaiming the Matriarchal" 2024 (Melissa Rosario). Yasmin Hernandez, Portraits from the Trench series. Acrylic and sequins on black velvet, 29 ½ x 19 ½”. “The difference between repatriation and rematriation is that focus on reclaiming or restoring the matriarchal wisdom.” -Excerpt, Interview with Meli. One of the early voices lifting the term rematriation in the archipelago, Melissa, originally from New York, is the author of Beyond Disaster: Building Collective Futures in Puerto Rico and co-founder and co-director of CEPA, a healing justice project committed to decolonization. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/1753569335745-WFN6F18SMAEIVG3GXQKI/Meli_RematriatingBoriken_YasminHernandezArt2024.jpg Art - Calligraphy "Reclaiming the Matriarchal" 2024 (Melissa Rosario). Yasmin Hernandez, Portraits from the Trench series. Acrylic and sequins on black velvet, 29 ½ x 19 ½”. “The difference between repatriation and rematriation is that focus on reclaiming or restoring the matriarchal wisdom.” -Excerpt, Interview with Meli. One of the early voices lifting the term rematriation in the archipelago, Melissa, originally from New York, is the author of Beyond Disaster: Building Collective Futures in Puerto Rico and co-founder and co-director of CEPA, a healing justice project committed to decolonization. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/54579706-4cd6-4d48-85d9-29e66c347a9f/Jania.RematriatingBoriken.YasminHernandez.jpg Art - Calligraphy "La bomba me sostiene" (Janía), 2024. Yasmin Hernandez. Portraits from the Trench series. Acrylic and sequins on black velvet. 29 ¾ x 50”. Wanting to be portrayed with her bomba barril, I decided to paint her reflection onto the drum itself: “En mis años de (re)matriar en esta tierra, he podido describir montes, costas y horizontes que mi abuela misma no pudo apreciar. Es ahí en esos momentos cuando observo un atardecer, cuando me sumerjo en un mar turquesa, cuando me acaricia la brisa de los montes es que descubro que mis ancestres tuvieron que irse para yo econtrarme aquí.” Translation: In my years of (re)matriating this land, I’ve been able to describe mountains, coasts and horizons that my own grandmother was not able to appreciate. It is there in those moments when I observe a sunset, when I immerse myself in a turquoise sea, when the cool breeze of the mountains caresses me that I discover that my ancestors had to leave for me to find myself here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/54579706-4cd6-4d48-85d9-29e66c347a9f/Jania.RematriatingBoriken.YasminHernandez.jpg Art - Calligraphy "La bomba me sostiene" (Janía), 2024. Yasmin Hernandez. Portraits from the Trench series. Acrylic and sequins on black velvet. 29 ¾ x 50”. Wanting to be portrayed with her bomba barril, I decided to paint her reflection onto the drum itself: “En mis años de (re)matriar en esta tierra, he podido describir montes, costas y horizontes que mi abuela misma no pudo apreciar. Es ahí en esos momentos cuando observo un atardecer, cuando me sumerjo en un mar turquesa, cuando me acaricia la brisa de los montes es que descubro que mis ancestres tuvieron que irse para yo econtrarme aquí.” Translation: In my years of (re)matriating this land, I’ve been able to describe mountains, coasts and horizons that my own grandmother was not able to appreciate. It is there in those moments when I observe a sunset, when I immerse myself in a turquoise sea, when the cool breeze of the mountains caresses me that I discover that my ancestors had to leave for me to find myself here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/1731160571494-V310RD51DT1HTAOK3BB1/Marisol_RematriatingBoriken_YasminHernandez2024.jpg Art - Calligraphy “Es aquí donde yo pertenezco” (Marisol) 2024. (Here is where I belong) Yasmin Hernandez. Portraits from the Trench series. Acrylic and sequins on black velvet, 30 x 25”. “El Huracán María fue el punto donde hubo esa transformación. De alguna manera fuimos libres, y creamos nuestros propios sistemas para seguir. Dentro de todo este caos, sí hay libertad. Todo ese dolor lo que hizo fue limpiar esa nube que no permitía que yo viera que yo soy de aquí, que es aquí donde yo pertenezco” (Hurricane María was the point of transformation. Somehow we were free, and we created our own systems to move forward. Within all this chaos, yes there is freedom. What all that pain did was clear that cloud that would allow me to see that I am from here, that it is here where I belong.) Marisol came to her interview wanting to center this kufiya gifted to her by her friend’s family who was visiting from Palestine. Puerto Rico has a Palestinian community. We share communities with the Palestinian diaspora displaced since the first Nakba of 1948, before and since. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/1731160571494-V310RD51DT1HTAOK3BB1/Marisol_RematriatingBoriken_YasminHernandez2024.jpg Art - Calligraphy “Es aquí donde yo pertenezco” (Marisol) 2024. (Here is where I belong) Yasmin Hernandez. Portraits from the Trench series. Acrylic and sequins on black velvet, 30 x 25”. “El Huracán María fue el punto donde hubo esa transformación. De alguna manera fuimos libres, y creamos nuestros propios sistemas para seguir. Dentro de todo este caos, sí hay libertad. Todo ese dolor lo que hizo fue limpiar esa nube que no permitía que yo viera que yo soy de aquí, que es aquí donde yo pertenezco” (Hurricane María was the point of transformation. Somehow we were free, and we created our own systems to move forward. Within all this chaos, yes there is freedom. What all that pain did was clear that cloud that would allow me to see that I am from here, that it is here where I belong.) Marisol came to her interview wanting to center this kufiya gifted to her by her friend’s family who was visiting from Palestine. Puerto Rico has a Palestinian community. We share communities with the Palestinian diaspora displaced since the first Nakba of 1948, before and since. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/7b5bbc73-a55c-43fa-b51f-c43bc3f8dafc/InteroceanCosmicMarineSpecies.RematriatingBoriken.YasminHernandez.jpg Art - Calligraphy "Inter-ocean, Cosmic Marine Species," 2023. Yasmin Hernandez. Portraits from the Trench series. Acrylic on black velour, 59 x 53 inches. "We, another interocean, cosmic, marine species of colonial refugees emerge like mermaids from the sea.” -Excerpt, Rematriating Borikén Manifesto. This painting combines portraits of Susimar, Max, Lilly, Leo, Janía, & Rosie, all on the rematriation journey, currently living in el oeste de Borikén. The first half left Puerto Rico and returned, the latter three moved to the archipelago from New York and Boston. This project, supported by a Fund for the Arts grant from the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture, uses abyss aesthetics to feature folks on their rematriation journey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/7b5bbc73-a55c-43fa-b51f-c43bc3f8dafc/InteroceanCosmicMarineSpecies.RematriatingBoriken.YasminHernandez.jpg Art - Calligraphy "Inter-ocean, Cosmic Marine Species," 2023. Yasmin Hernandez. Portraits from the Trench series. Acrylic on black velour, 59 x 53 inches. "We, another interocean, cosmic, marine species of colonial refugees emerge like mermaids from the sea.” -Excerpt, Rematriating Borikén Manifesto. This painting combines portraits of Susimar, Max, Lilly, Leo, Janía, & Rosie, all on the rematriation journey, currently living in el oeste de Borikén. The first half left Puerto Rico and returned, the latter three moved to the archipelago from New York and Boston. This project, supported by a Fund for the Arts grant from the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture, uses abyss aesthetics to feature folks on their rematriation journey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/63564033-7fa3-43c9-987e-14de500e8f5a/LuisaCosmica_YasminHernandezArt_2004_wtrm.jpg Art - Calligraphy "Luisa Cósmica" 2022. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 24 inches. "Existirá el libre cambio pues estarán abolidas las fronteras y la verdadera Libertad reinará en este planeta. Procura tu ayudar con la práctica a la realización de estas..." (Free exchange would exist as borders would be abolished and true liberation would reign on this planet. Seek to help with the practice of realizing these...) Luisa Capetillo was a Puerto Rican labor organizer, writer, activist, anarchist and espiritista. She wrote Puerto Rico's first feminist text in 1911, Mi Opinion sobre las libertades, derechos y deberes de la mujer. History most remembers her for wearing pants and being arrested for doing so but the depth and breadth of her writing, which was eons before its time, is her greatest achievement. This work envisions her as a luminous spirit. The painting was created for a tribute exhibit on the centennial of her passing at Casa Ulanga in Arecibo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/63564033-7fa3-43c9-987e-14de500e8f5a/LuisaCosmica_YasminHernandezArt_2004_wtrm.jpg Art - Calligraphy "Luisa Cósmica" 2022. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 24 inches. "Existirá el libre cambio pues estarán abolidas las fronteras y la verdadera Libertad reinará en este planeta. Procura tu ayudar con la práctica a la realización de estas..." (Free exchange would exist as borders would be abolished and true liberation would reign on this planet. Seek to help with the practice of realizing these...) Luisa Capetillo was a Puerto Rican labor organizer, writer, activist, anarchist and espiritista. She wrote Puerto Rico's first feminist text in 1911, Mi Opinion sobre las libertades, derechos y deberes de la mujer. History most remembers her for wearing pants and being arrested for doing so but the depth and breadth of her writing, which was eons before its time, is her greatest achievement. This work envisions her as a luminous spirit. The painting was created for a tribute exhibit on the centennial of her passing at Casa Ulanga in Arecibo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/39c532ad-83a2-40e8-ad30-b9360e168f04/CucubaNacion_YasminHernandezArt_LolitaLuna_2019.jpg Art - Calligraphy “Ya yo vi la Luna” 2019, Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on canvas, 14 x 18”. I started this piece on March 1st, 2018, when the full moon coincided with the anniversary of the mission Lolita Lebron led in Washington that date in 1954 to protest US colonialism in Puerto Rico. Lolita served 25 years is US federal prisons as a result. I didn’t finish the piece until November 2019 when we commemorated the centennial of Lolita’s birth. It includes a quote from Lolita's interview with Dr. Consuelo Martinez-Reyes, “Ya yo vi la luna: la última entrevista a Lolita Lebrón." Contemplating her transition at over 90 years old she said “I will be able to better appreciate the air, the stars, the sun. I have already seen the moon.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/39c532ad-83a2-40e8-ad30-b9360e168f04/CucubaNacion_YasminHernandezArt_LolitaLuna_2019.jpg Art - Calligraphy “Ya yo vi la Luna” 2019, Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on canvas, 14 x 18”. I started this piece on March 1st, 2018, when the full moon coincided with the anniversary of the mission Lolita Lebron led in Washington that date in 1954 to protest US colonialism in Puerto Rico. Lolita served 25 years is US federal prisons as a result. I didn’t finish the piece until November 2019 when we commemorated the centennial of Lolita’s birth. It includes a quote from Lolita's interview with Dr. Consuelo Martinez-Reyes, “Ya yo vi la luna: la última entrevista a Lolita Lebrón." Contemplating her transition at over 90 years old she said “I will be able to better appreciate the air, the stars, the sun. I have already seen the moon.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/044119fe-ec74-4eff-8b59-476b83560287/CucubaNacionHermandad_Bioluminiscente2018_YasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Calligraphy “Hermandad Bioluminescente” 2018. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on Canvas. 30"x24". This portrait of legendary Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos (on the right) and her sister Consuelo chronicles their love across waters with excerpts of letters Julia would write to Consuelo and of her poems. “Looking at you is seeing myself whole in light, rolling in blue.” Their inter-ocean sisterhood between New York and Puerto Rico reminds me of my own experience having most of my family in the states while I am in Puerto Rico, and of the many families of the Caribbean islands and coastal communities displaced by the storms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/044119fe-ec74-4eff-8b59-476b83560287/CucubaNacionHermandad_Bioluminiscente2018_YasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Calligraphy “Hermandad Bioluminescente” 2018. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on Canvas. 30"x24". This portrait of legendary Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos (on the right) and her sister Consuelo chronicles their love across waters with excerpts of letters Julia would write to Consuelo and of her poems. “Looking at you is seeing myself whole in light, rolling in blue.” Their inter-ocean sisterhood between New York and Puerto Rico reminds me of my own experience having most of my family in the states while I am in Puerto Rico, and of the many families of the Caribbean islands and coastal communities displaced by the storms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/d1f4dfd9-c35e-41ef-8f71-dfa03e5d15a8/WaterProtectors_YasminHernandezArt2018_wm.jpg Art - Calligraphy Water Protectors is inspired by my nebulas series and the bioluminescence in Bieké's waters. It envisions buffalo within the Standing Rock landscape as bioluminescent spirit warriors protecting the water that flows across these lands. Red and blue are references to hydrogen, oxygen in our bodies, our water, the cosmos. Included is the text: "Only after the last tree has been cut down, only after the last river has been poisoned, only after the last fish has been caught, only then will you find that money can't be eaten." Thelvia, who commissioned this work simply asked for a painting with these words (usually credited as a Cree prophecy in variations). I combined them with this vision of Standing Rock. Commissioned in the summer of 2017, I asked for an extension following Hurricane Irma. Two weeks later, Hurricane Maria hit. Needless to say, I didn't finish the painting until 2018, having gotten my lights back in January. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/d1f4dfd9-c35e-41ef-8f71-dfa03e5d15a8/WaterProtectors_YasminHernandezArt2018_wm.jpg Art - Calligraphy Water Protectors is inspired by my nebulas series and the bioluminescence in Bieké's waters. It envisions buffalo within the Standing Rock landscape as bioluminescent spirit warriors protecting the water that flows across these lands. Red and blue are references to hydrogen, oxygen in our bodies, our water, the cosmos. Included is the text: "Only after the last tree has been cut down, only after the last river has been poisoned, only after the last fish has been caught, only then will you find that money can't be eaten." Thelvia, who commissioned this work simply asked for a painting with these words (usually credited as a Cree prophecy in variations). I combined them with this vision of Standing Rock. Commissioned in the summer of 2017, I asked for an extension following Hurricane Irma. Two weeks later, Hurricane Maria hit. Needless to say, I didn't finish the painting until 2018, having gotten my lights back in January. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/918c3751-7a41-4bcb-8e10-08801a37fdce/2016YasminHernandezartllamamoslalibertad.jpg Art - Calligraphy "Eso que llamamos la libertad", 2016. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on canvas, 30" x 24". Portrait of artist, poet, professor, former Puerto Rican political prisoner Elizam Escobar. I included a quote I heard during his presentation at a political prisoner conference in Mayagüez: "That which we call freedom is not a state of being, it is a practice." I painted him dressed in a nebula to reference the transcendence and liberatory practice embodied by Elizam in his art, actions, and words. Elizam left this realm in January of 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/918c3751-7a41-4bcb-8e10-08801a37fdce/2016YasminHernandezartllamamoslalibertad.jpg Art - Calligraphy "Eso que llamamos la libertad", 2016. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on canvas, 30" x 24". Portrait of artist, poet, professor, former Puerto Rican political prisoner Elizam Escobar. I included a quote I heard during his presentation at a political prisoner conference in Mayagüez: "That which we call freedom is not a state of being, it is a practice." I painted him dressed in a nebula to reference the transcendence and liberatory practice embodied by Elizam in his art, actions, and words. Elizam left this realm in January of 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/b57cb933-29ac-4a07-b2bc-43804534c521/2016Soldaderas5YearsYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Calligraphy “Soldaderas Remix Print” 2016. (Soldaderas Mural-Frida Kahlo & Julia de Burgos) Yasmin Hernandez. Archival Print on Rag paper. 11 x 17”. This is an anniversary print that I created of my Soldaderas mural, tribute to Mexican painter Frida Kahlo and Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos. It includes one of my favorite quotes of Julia’s: “Si me muero no quiero que este trágico país se trague mis huesos. Necesitan el calor de Borinquen. Por lo menos para fortalecer los gusanos de allá y no los de acá. (If I die I don’t want this tragic country to swallow my bones. They need the warmth of Borinquen if only to strengthen the worms of over there and not the ones here.) She wrote these words to her sister in a letter in April of 1953 from Goldwater Hospital on Roosevelt or Welfare Island to Puerto Rico. Just three months later, July 6, Julia de Burgos transitioned into the realm of ancestors in New York. Her remains were thankfully rematriated back to her beloved Carolina. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/b57cb933-29ac-4a07-b2bc-43804534c521/2016Soldaderas5YearsYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Calligraphy “Soldaderas Remix Print” 2016. (Soldaderas Mural-Frida Kahlo & Julia de Burgos) Yasmin Hernandez. Archival Print on Rag paper. 11 x 17”. This is an anniversary print that I created of my Soldaderas mural, tribute to Mexican painter Frida Kahlo and Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos. It includes one of my favorite quotes of Julia’s: “Si me muero no quiero que este trágico país se trague mis huesos. Necesitan el calor de Borinquen. Por lo menos para fortalecer los gusanos de allá y no los de acá. (If I die I don’t want this tragic country to swallow my bones. They need the warmth of Borinquen if only to strengthen the worms of over there and not the ones here.) She wrote these words to her sister in a letter in April of 1953 from Goldwater Hospital on Roosevelt or Welfare Island to Puerto Rico. Just three months later, July 6, Julia de Burgos transitioned into the realm of ancestors in New York. Her remains were thankfully rematriated back to her beloved Carolina. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/f7c5826f-bb9b-4b34-85a0-b6fb0b3d439d/2013KahlografiaYasminHernandezart.png Art - Calligraphy “Kahlografia”, 2013. Yasmin Hernandez. Ink on brown paper, 10" x 8". Portrait of Frida Kahlo featuring an excerpt from her journal. In it she discusses how nothing is more valuable than laughter. It is strength to laugh, lose oneself, be light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/f7c5826f-bb9b-4b34-85a0-b6fb0b3d439d/2013KahlografiaYasminHernandezart.png Art - Calligraphy “Kahlografia”, 2013. Yasmin Hernandez. Ink on brown paper, 10" x 8". Portrait of Frida Kahlo featuring an excerpt from her journal. In it she discusses how nothing is more valuable than laughter. It is strength to laugh, lose oneself, be light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/6ae60562-2c4e-42b6-a46c-1dc66966a02e/2014detailPlayOwnRiskYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Calligraphy Detail, “Play at Your Own Risk”, 2014. Yasmin Hernandez. Outlaw clothesline series. Mixed media on cotton bandana. 20" x 20" Tribute to my brother Joseph lost to cancer in 2010, featuring my poem "Forever big brother" and my self-portrait with my brother. (I imagine you complete and present/ My forever big brother/ I cement in my head my superhero vision of you that I crafted as a little girl/ You stand eternal, invincible, strong in that vision/ As you once were/ As you are now/ As you will always be be) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/6ae60562-2c4e-42b6-a46c-1dc66966a02e/2014detailPlayOwnRiskYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Calligraphy Detail, “Play at Your Own Risk”, 2014. Yasmin Hernandez. Outlaw clothesline series. Mixed media on cotton bandana. 20" x 20" Tribute to my brother Joseph lost to cancer in 2010, featuring my poem "Forever big brother" and my self-portrait with my brother. (I imagine you complete and present/ My forever big brother/ I cement in my head my superhero vision of you that I crafted as a little girl/ You stand eternal, invincible, strong in that vision/ As you once were/ As you are now/ As you will always be be) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/c5036e53-2bfb-4494-a0d4-d38b52001446/2014HearItCallingMe_YasminHernandezart.jpg Art - Calligraphy “Hear it Callin’ me back home” 2014. Yasmin Hernandez. Outlaw Clothesline Series. Mixed media on cotton bandana, 20" x 20". This tribute to my brother marks the moment of his passing, recalling how I played him the song "Babe I'm gonna leave you" by Led Zeppelin. With it I realized that he was informing me of his departure. He transitioned within a half hour. (Baby I'm gonna leave you...I ain't jokin' woman I've got to ramble...I can hear it calling me the way it used to do. I can hear it calling me back home.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/c5036e53-2bfb-4494-a0d4-d38b52001446/2014HearItCallingMe_YasminHernandezart.jpg Art - Calligraphy “Hear it Callin’ me back home” 2014. Yasmin Hernandez. Outlaw Clothesline Series. Mixed media on cotton bandana, 20" x 20". This tribute to my brother marks the moment of his passing, recalling how I played him the song "Babe I'm gonna leave you" by Led Zeppelin. With it I realized that he was informing me of his departure. He transitioned within a half hour. (Baby I'm gonna leave you...I ain't jokin' woman I've got to ramble...I can hear it calling me the way it used to do. I can hear it calling me back home.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/8da136c2-792f-43fe-8f04-90ef1d5b9523/2010prophetYasminHernandezart.jpg Art - Calligraphy “Prophet”, 2010. Yasmin Hernandez. Luz series, Mixed media on paper, 18" x 12". Portrait of my brother as a young boy in Puerto Rico alongside a biblical verse found in a prayer book of his. It describes the selfless life he led. (The Lord has anointed and qualified me to preach the Gospel of good tidings to the meek, the poor and afflicted. He has sent me to bind up and heal the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening of the prison and of the eyes to those who are bound. Rom 10:15.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/8da136c2-792f-43fe-8f04-90ef1d5b9523/2010prophetYasminHernandezart.jpg Art - Calligraphy “Prophet”, 2010. Yasmin Hernandez. Luz series, Mixed media on paper, 18" x 12". Portrait of my brother as a young boy in Puerto Rico alongside a biblical verse found in a prayer book of his. It describes the selfless life he led. (The Lord has anointed and qualified me to preach the Gospel of good tidings to the meek, the poor and afflicted. He has sent me to bind up and heal the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening of the prison and of the eyes to those who are bound. Rom 10:15.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/9309bc11-20db-4a38-8de5-2c7526dd2623/2010IndestructibleYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Calligraphy “Indestructible”, 2010. Yasmin Hernandez. Luz series. Mixed media on paper 18" x 12". My brother took this photo of his hand with my son's hand when Gabriel was just 6 months old. My brother transitioned 6 months later, just after Gabriel's 1st birthday. In calligraphy I included the lyrics of Ray Barreto's "Indestructible" which sings that when beloved blood is lost, in new blood lies indestructible strength. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/9309bc11-20db-4a38-8de5-2c7526dd2623/2010IndestructibleYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Calligraphy “Indestructible”, 2010. Yasmin Hernandez. Luz series. Mixed media on paper 18" x 12". My brother took this photo of his hand with my son's hand when Gabriel was just 6 months old. My brother transitioned 6 months later, just after Gabriel's 1st birthday. In calligraphy I included the lyrics of Ray Barreto's "Indestructible" which sings that when beloved blood is lost, in new blood lies indestructible strength. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/b083dc0c-4109-4f9d-9063-8774fc676caa/2010OutlawYasminHernandezArt.jpeg Art - Calligraphy “Outlaw” 2010. Yasmin Hernandez. Luz series, Mixed media on watercolor paper, 18" x 12". Portrait of my brother dressed as an outlaw, alongside an excerpt from my poem "Brooklyn Bred Borica:" (Boricua outlaw brothers in leather and chains taken off their bodies and minds/ Turned into weapons of self-defense/ Rockin' punk patches patria banderas and bandanas on their foreheads and back pockets.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/b083dc0c-4109-4f9d-9063-8774fc676caa/2010OutlawYasminHernandezArt.jpeg Art - Calligraphy “Outlaw” 2010. Yasmin Hernandez. Luz series, Mixed media on watercolor paper, 18" x 12". Portrait of my brother dressed as an outlaw, alongside an excerpt from my poem "Brooklyn Bred Borica:" (Boricua outlaw brothers in leather and chains taken off their bodies and minds/ Turned into weapons of self-defense/ Rockin' punk patches patria banderas and bandanas on their foreheads and back pockets.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/248b9ff2-f6e5-436c-be01-0ca2e03d54d1/2010outlawdetail.yasminhernandezart.jpg Art - Calligraphy Calligraphy detail. “Outlaw” 2010. Yasmin Hernandez. Luz series, Mixed media on watercolor paper, 18" x 12". Portrait of my brother dressed as an outlaw, alongside an excerpt from my poem "Brooklyn Bred Borica:" (Boricua outlaw brothers in leather and chains taken off their bodies and minds/ Turned into weapons of self-defense/ Rockin' punk patches patria banderas and bandanas on their foreheads and back pockets.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/248b9ff2-f6e5-436c-be01-0ca2e03d54d1/2010outlawdetail.yasminhernandezart.jpg Art - Calligraphy Calligraphy detail. “Outlaw” 2010. Yasmin Hernandez. Luz series, Mixed media on watercolor paper, 18" x 12". Portrait of my brother dressed as an outlaw, alongside an excerpt from my poem "Brooklyn Bred Borica:" (Boricua outlaw brothers in leather and chains taken off their bodies and minds/ Turned into weapons of self-defense/ Rockin' punk patches patria banderas and bandanas on their foreheads and back pockets.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/9506a1b4-7fa7-481c-8660-8c0f04c050ed/2013BorikenAyeYasminHernandezart.jpg Art - Calligraphy “Boriken Aye” 2012. Yasmin Hernandez. Mixed media on paper, 33" x 22". Created as the poster image for the Puerto Rican Studies Association 20th anniversary conference. The image borrows the seashell from the indigenous fotuto and the Yoruba Eshu Aye to celebrate the Puerto Rican Diaspora. The calligraphy features quotes by Julia de Burgos, Martin Espada and Aurora Levin Morales. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/9506a1b4-7fa7-481c-8660-8c0f04c050ed/2013BorikenAyeYasminHernandezart.jpg Art - Calligraphy “Boriken Aye” 2012. Yasmin Hernandez. Mixed media on paper, 33" x 22". Created as the poster image for the Puerto Rican Studies Association 20th anniversary conference. The image borrows the seashell from the indigenous fotuto and the Yoruba Eshu Aye to celebrate the Puerto Rican Diaspora. The calligraphy features quotes by Julia de Burgos, Martin Espada and Aurora Levin Morales. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/21e5e9c5-94d3-4d06-94da-7c50120eb498/2009valiente.norma.yasminhernandezart.jpg Art - Calligraphy “Valiente Norma.” 2009, Yasmin Hernandez. Bieké: Tierra de Valientes series, Mixed media on camouflage, 30" x 20". Portrait of the Vieques activist, poet, artist and breast cancer survivor, Norma Torres Sanes. The calligraphy features an excerpt from her interview in which she discusses the United States' co-opting of the term "America" as if they were all encompassing of it. She discusses the many Americans (north, central and south) that fall under the "Americans" title and clarifies how the US alone does not own rights to this term. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/21e5e9c5-94d3-4d06-94da-7c50120eb498/2009valiente.norma.yasminhernandezart.jpg Art - Calligraphy “Valiente Norma.” 2009, Yasmin Hernandez. Bieké: Tierra de Valientes series, Mixed media on camouflage, 30" x 20". Portrait of the Vieques activist, poet, artist and breast cancer survivor, Norma Torres Sanes. The calligraphy features an excerpt from her interview in which she discusses the United States' co-opting of the term "America" as if they were all encompassing of it. She discusses the many Americans (north, central and south) that fall under the "Americans" title and clarifies how the US alone does not own rights to this term. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/4cd27839-fa84-4e41-a6ae-82bec2acc6fe/2006NuyoricanYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Calligraphy “Nuyorican” (Tato Laviera) 2006, Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on burlap, 60" x 40" This portrait of the late poet features the words of his poem Nuyorican. Written in Spanish, it speaks to a history of forced migration from Puerto Rico and the rejection that occurs when Boricuas of the Diaspora return to Puerto Rico and are criticized for how they speak, act, dress, how they are denied their own puertorriqueñidad. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/4cd27839-fa84-4e41-a6ae-82bec2acc6fe/2006NuyoricanYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Calligraphy “Nuyorican” (Tato Laviera) 2006, Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on burlap, 60" x 40" This portrait of the late poet features the words of his poem Nuyorican. Written in Spanish, it speaks to a history of forced migration from Puerto Rico and the rejection that occurs when Boricuas of the Diaspora return to Puerto Rico and are criticized for how they speak, act, dress, how they are denied their own puertorriqueñidad. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/25c4ca6c-ca0f-48c8-9c33-be5453b8ea2b/2006YasminHernandezArt_JibaraJuliadeBurgos.jpg Art - Calligraphy “Jibara Julia” 2006. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on burlap, 84" x 39". Portrait of the legendary Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos (1914-1953). This image depicts her as the liberator she described in her poetry. Featured in calligraphy is an excerpt from her poem Pentacromía: "Sería un obrero picando la caña/ sudando el jornal/ A brazos arriba/ los puños en alto/ quitándole al mundo mi parte de pan. (I'd be a laborer cutting cane, sweating the wage, arms up, fists high, taking from the world my piece of bread.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/25c4ca6c-ca0f-48c8-9c33-be5453b8ea2b/2006YasminHernandezArt_JibaraJuliadeBurgos.jpg Art - Calligraphy “Jibara Julia” 2006. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on burlap, 84" x 39". Portrait of the legendary Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos (1914-1953). This image depicts her as the liberator she described in her poetry. Featured in calligraphy is an excerpt from her poem Pentacromía: "Sería un obrero picando la caña/ sudando el jornal/ A brazos arriba/ los puños en alto/ quitándole al mundo mi parte de pan. (I'd be a laborer cutting cane, sweating the wage, arms up, fists high, taking from the world my piece of bread.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/1f912976-03bd-4cc2-9644-4557208329a5/2006ElJibaroYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Calligraphy “El Jíbaro” 2006. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on burlap, 84" x 39. Portrait of Musica Jíbara artist Andrés Jiménez. This portrait places the musician in a sugar cane field, machete in hand. Featuring an excerpt of lyrics to his song "Barlovento:" (Sopla viento traicionero del dolor donde no hay pan/ Pan del alma para el hambre de justicia y de igualdad..../ Viento mar de pescadores/ Viento tierra de labradores Viento sol salvadoreño/ que no quieren tener dueño/ Soplen vientos del Caribe que la historia así se escribe.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/1f912976-03bd-4cc2-9644-4557208329a5/2006ElJibaroYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Calligraphy “El Jíbaro” 2006. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on burlap, 84" x 39. Portrait of Musica Jíbara artist Andrés Jiménez. This portrait places the musician in a sugar cane field, machete in hand. Featuring an excerpt of lyrics to his song "Barlovento:" (Sopla viento traicionero del dolor donde no hay pan/ Pan del alma para el hambre de justicia y de igualdad..../ Viento mar de pescadores/ Viento tierra de labradores Viento sol salvadoreño/ que no quieren tener dueño/ Soplen vientos del Caribe que la historia así se escribe.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/c96eef17-bd82-42a2-b7a4-1d783a55bfe2/2006dylciaYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Calligraphy "Querer ser libre" (Dylcia Pagán) 2006. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic, seashells and peacock feathers on canvas. 24" x 36". This portrait pf my dear friend and mentor, former Puerto Rican political prisoner and now ancestor, Dylcia Pagán. I painted her as I remembered during an afternoon we spent at the sea, behind her home in Loíza. This portrait hung in her living room until her unexpected transition into ancestorhood in 2024. The quote is of Ramón Emeterio Betances, (The desire to be free is to begin being free). I am ever grateful to the freedom she embodied and modelled for us all and to the fierce love she shined on me and so many of my generation, and beyond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/c96eef17-bd82-42a2-b7a4-1d783a55bfe2/2006dylciaYasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - Calligraphy "Querer ser libre" (Dylcia Pagán) 2006. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic, seashells and peacock feathers on canvas. 24" x 36". This portrait pf my dear friend and mentor, former Puerto Rican political prisoner and now ancestor, Dylcia Pagán. I painted her as I remembered during an afternoon we spent at the sea, behind her home in Loíza. This portrait hung in her living room until her unexpected transition into ancestorhood in 2024. The quote is of Ramón Emeterio Betances, (The desire to be free is to begin being free). I am ever grateful to the freedom she embodied and modelled for us all and to the fierce love she shined on me and so many of my generation, and beyond. https://yasminhernandez.art/art/nebulas monthly 0.5 2025-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/377a4367-9678-4500-8ddf-b1d2e5ba3b50/YasminHernandezArt_CorretjerEnLaLuna2024.jpg Art - Nebulas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/377a4367-9678-4500-8ddf-b1d2e5ba3b50/YasminHernandezArt_CorretjerEnLaLuna2024.jpg Art - Nebulas “Corretjer en la luna,” 2024. Más allá de la luna series. Yasmin Hernandez. Color Pencil on black Strathmore Paper. 12 x 9 inches. Juan Antonio Corretjer wrote the famous patriotic poem “Boricua en la luna”. It inspired the title of this series, “Más allá de la luna” as in Puerto Ricans on the moon and beyond the moon. Corretjer ends his poem with “Yo sería Borincano aunque naciera en la luna.” (I would be Boricua even if I was born on the moon). It is a necessary message for so many born out in the diaspora who have had their identity questioned (myself included). This series, as described in the statement above, uses the colors of our flag to create nebula portraits of our warrior, freedom fighter ancestors. Beyond the moon, speaks to our ancestors existing on another plane. Aside from being a poet, Corretjer was known as a member of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, a former political prisoner, a socialist who inspired various liberation organizations. I created this work for the Círculo de Lectura Corretjer that is hosted by poet/ artist Ketsia Camacho Ramos at CucubaNación. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/357afc62-4be1-4b52-b68b-0d8e7d774a1f/PhilandoCastileNebula_YasminHernandezArt2020.jpg Art - Nebulas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/357afc62-4be1-4b52-b68b-0d8e7d774a1f/PhilandoCastileNebula_YasminHernandezArt2020.jpg Art - Nebulas "Philando Castile Nebula" 2020. Yasmin Hernandez. Color Pencil on black Strathmore paper, 12 x 9 inches. Philando Castile, at just 32 years old was killed during a traffic police stop in Minneapolis on July 6, 2016. He was shot by the officer several times within close range. His girlfriend was in the car with her four-year-old daughter when it happened. She documented the incident via a video she shared from the car, providing evidence. That his loved ones would have to witness this, and a young child as well, is not only testament to the violence black men face at the hands of police officers but the lack of humanity. Additionally, when we lose our loved ones in this way, there is an added layer of violence where we are not allowed to simply grieve, but are tasked with the grueling process of documenting, providing evidence and fighting for justice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/ec47db25-b8f4-451a-b44c-24bf4b2de9bf/YusefHawkinsNebula_YasminHernandezArt2020_wmk.jpg Art - Nebulas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/ec47db25-b8f4-451a-b44c-24bf4b2de9bf/YusefHawkinsNebula_YasminHernandezArt2020_wmk.jpg Art - Nebulas "Yusuf Hawkins Nebula" 2020. Yasmin Hernandez. Color Pencil on black Strathmore paper, 12 x 9 inches. Young brother Yusuf Hawkins, just 16 years, old was killed by a mob of white youth in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn on August 23, 1989. He was there with a brother and a cousin to inquire about a used car for sale and never returned home to East New York Brooklyn. East New York is the community I grew up in. I was about to start high school that summer. Al Sharpton organized marches and the Nation of Islam provided security at the home. The news of the "Central Park 5" case was still on the airwaves, along with so many other incidents. This is the climate I was raised in and that helped shape my political formation not just as a Puerto Rican but one with a black liberation consciousness. For more information please watch the documentary Storm Over Brooklyn on your streaming channels. Follow this link for a trailer and interview with Yusuf's brother and the film director. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/1734573344665-NMUDJ0V3Z22S3CK6ANW5/GeorgeFloydNebula_YasminHernandezArt2019wm.jpg Art - Nebulas "George Floyd Nebula" 2020, Color Pencil on black paper, 12" x 9" While drawing George Floyd, my 8-year-old son wanted to know who I was drawing. I explained, and told him what happened to him. He wanted to know why. I tried to explain. His face changed into many different expressions as he tried to wrap his head around what happened. Finally he asked, "Whose belly was he in?” Taken aback by the question, I paused then searched for a photo on my phone of George Floyd as a boy in his mother's arms. I held it up to him. "He was in her belly," I proclaimed. "Oh" he affirmed, like now he knows who George Floyd was and is based on the woman whose belly held him. He continued: "Why would anyone want to kill him as a grown up when he was such a cute boy?" In order to understand life, life taken, my son needed to know whose belly held Floyd. When seeing his life flash before his eyes, as a beast dug his knee into the back of his neck, George Floyd called for the woman who held him in her belly. All this to say that if breath and life hail from the womb , then liberation should be secured from that space. Be free yall. We arrived that way from the cosmos. Let's be sure to return more free than when we arrived. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/1734573344665-NMUDJ0V3Z22S3CK6ANW5/GeorgeFloydNebula_YasminHernandezArt2019wm.jpg Art - Nebulas "George Floyd Nebula" 2020. Yasmin Hernandez. Color Pencil on black Strathmore paper, 12 x 9 inches. While drawing this portrait of George Floyd, my son who was 8 at the time wanted to know who I was drawing. I explained. Confused and saddened that his life was violently taken, he asked, "Whose belly was he in?” Finding a photo on my phone of George Floyd as a boy in his mother's arms, I held it up to him. "Why would anyone want to kill him as a grown up when he was such a cute boy?," he questioned. My child advocated for George Floyd's humanity, declaring him a "cute boy" worthy of love and justice as a grown man, connecting him to his source and history. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/4babeebf-a357-4467-b340-c81e39b2829d/WaterProtectors_YasminHernandezArt2018.jpg Art - Nebulas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/4babeebf-a357-4467-b340-c81e39b2829d/WaterProtectors_YasminHernandezArt2018.jpg Art - Nebulas "Water Protectors" 2018. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on canvas. 25 x 48 inches. Commissioned by Thelvia Bonano Scarlett, Jacksonville, FL. Water Protectors is inspired by my nebulas series and the bioluminescence in Bieké's waters. It envisions buffalo within the Standing Rock landscape as bioluminescent spirit warriors protecting the water that flows across these lands. Red and blue are references to hydrogen, oxygen in our bodies, our water, the cosmos. Included is the text: "Only after the last tree has been cut down, only after the last river has been poisoned, only after the last fish has been caught, only then will you find that money can't be eaten." Thelvia, who commissioned this work simply asked for a painting with these words (usually credited as a Cree prophecy in variations). I combined them with this vision of Standing Rock. Commissioned in the summer of 2017, I asked for an extension following Hurricane Irma. Two weeks later, Hurricane Maria hit. Needless to say, I didn't finish the painting until 2018, having gotten my lights back in January. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/71d21b17-11ed-4882-aaa0-45792ea6d5d6/11_OscarLopez_RegaloDeLosReyesMural_YasminHernandez2017.jpg Art - Nebulas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/71d21b17-11ed-4882-aaa0-45792ea6d5d6/11_OscarLopez_RegaloDeLosReyesMural_YasminHernandez2017.jpg Art - Nebulas "El Regalo de los Reyes," 2017. Yasmin Hernandez. Outdoor Mural of Oscar López Rivera, Radio Raíces, San Sebastián, Puerto Rico. I created this mural to commemorate Oscar Lopez Rivera’s release from prison and his return to his hometown after 35 years as a political prisoner of the United States. With his birthday on Three Kings Day, it features Los Tres Reyes constellation or Orion’s Belt in the center with adjacent stars Betelgeuse and Rigel creating red and blue triangular nebulas of the Puerto Rican and Cuban flags. The text is taken from Julia de Burgos’ poem of the same title about our flag. This image was taken at the moment Oscar López visited the radio station and saw the mural for the first time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/e433ab2c-3009-474f-830f-7f1696021bb8/2017YasminHernandezArtDedebtDecolonize.jpg Art - Nebulas "De-debt, Decolonize" 2017 Mixed media on canvas, 18" x 14". Part of Occupy Museum's Debt Fair installation at the 2017 Whitney Biennial. The Puerto Rican archipelago is presented within a nebula. From the main island emerges the face of Political Prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera, held 35 years. The nebula follows the topography of Puerto Rico's cordillera central. Inspired by Moca, PR musician el Topo's song: "Verde Luz, de monte y mar...para ti quiero tener libre tu suelo, sola tu estrella." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/e433ab2c-3009-474f-830f-7f1696021bb8/2017YasminHernandezArtDedebtDecolonize.jpg Art - Nebulas "De-Debt/ De-Colonize," 2017. Yasmin Hernandez. Mixed media on canvas, 18 x 14 inches. Part of Occupy Museum's Debt Fair installation at the 2017 Whitney Biennial. The Puerto Rican archipelago is presented within a nebula. From the main island emerges the face of Political Prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera, held 35 years. The nebula follows the topography of Puerto Rico's cordillera central. Inspired by Moca, PR musician el Topo's song: "Verde Luz, de monte y mar...para ti quiero tener libre tu suelo, sola tu estrella." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/a24b7508-3757-417e-b25e-4fdda8164484/2016YasminHernandezEsoquellamamoslalibertad.jpg Art - Nebulas "Eso que llamamos la libertad" 2016 Acrylic on canvas, 30" x 24". Portrait of artist, poet, professor, former Puerto Rican political prisoner Elizam Escobar. I include a quote I heard during his presentation at a conference: "That which we call freedom is not a state of being, it is a practice." I painted him dressed in a nebula to reference a transcendence and liberatory practice embodied by Elizam in his art, actions, and words. Elizam left this plane in January of 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/a24b7508-3757-417e-b25e-4fdda8164484/2016YasminHernandezEsoquellamamoslalibertad.jpg Art - Nebulas "Eso que llamamos la libertad" (Portrait of Elizam Escobar), 2016. Yasmin Hernandez Acrylic on canvas, 30 x 24 inches. Portrait of artist, poet, professor, former Puerto Rican political prisoner Elizam Escobar. I include a quote I heard during his presentation at a conference: "That which we call freedom is not a state of being, it is a practice." I painted him dressed in a nebula to reference a transcendence and liberatory practice embodied by Elizam in his art, actions, and words. Elizam left this plane in January of 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/89640662-852f-428a-b8f9-56aeea05d5bf/2016transmutaciondealmaYasminHernandez72sm.jpg Art - Nebulas "La Transmutación del alma" (Laura Meneses del Carpio y Pedro Albizu Campos) 2016 Digital Montage on Paper, 22" x 34". Tribute to Puerto Rican liberationist Pedro Albizu Campos, his wife Laura Meneses & their children. Featuring excerpts of letters he wrote to his daughters from Princesa prison, 1936. In one he asks "What mystery does water hold that God would choose it as the element for the transmutation of the soul?" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/89640662-852f-428a-b8f9-56aeea05d5bf/2016transmutaciondealmaYasminHernandez72sm.jpg Art - Nebulas "La Transmutación del alma," 2016. (Laura Meneses y Pedro Albizu Campos) Yasmin Hernandez. Digital Montage on Paper, 22 x 34 inches. Tribute to Puerto Rican liberationist Pedro Albizu Campos, his wife Laura Meneses & their children. Featuring excerpts of letters he wrote to their daughters from la Princesa prison, 1936. In one of them he writes, "What mystery does water hold that God would choose it as the element for the transmutation of the soul?" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/037653e8-a2e3-40fb-bc80-4c709cd9938f/2015YasminHernandezArt.NebulaFiliberto.jpg Art - Nebulas "Nébula: Filiberto Ojeda Ríos," 2015. Yasmin Hernandez. 2015 Acrylic on canvas, 36" x 24". Filiberto Ojeda Rios, clandestine revolutionary leader, assassinated by the FBI at home in Hormigueros, Puerto Rico at the age of 72, orchestrates more liberationist magic from the heavens https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/037653e8-a2e3-40fb-bc80-4c709cd9938f/2015YasminHernandezArt.NebulaFiliberto.jpg Art - Nebulas "Nébula: Filiberto Ojeda Ríos," 2015. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 24 inches. This portrait of Filiberto Ojeda Rios, clandestine revolutionary leader, assassinated by the FBI at his Hormigueros home at the age of 72 envisions him as a nebula. The work was created to commemorate the tenth anniversary of his transition. In 2025 we will commemorate 25 years since he was assassinated on September 23rd, 2005, anniversary of El Grito de Lares. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/1734573389446-NQ8IWSP0T0DCMLDMOW4S/2015.YasminHernandezArt.NebulaAlbizu.jpg Art - Nebulas "Nébula Pedro Albizu Campos", 2015. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on black velour, 18" x 24". Liberationist Pedro Albizu Campos emerges as a screaming spirit in this piece commemorating the 50th anniversary since his 1965 death. His death, exactly two months after that of Malcolm X, was from cancer resulting from radiation experiments he was subjected to while a political prisoner of the US. This anniversary marked a grim time in my move to Puerto Rico, one in which I asked his spirit for the strength to persevere here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/1734573389446-NQ8IWSP0T0DCMLDMOW4S/2015.YasminHernandezArt.NebulaAlbizu.jpg Art - Nebulas "Nébula Pedro Albizu Campos," 2015. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on black velour, 18 x 24 inches. Liberationist Pedro Albizu Campos emerges as a screaming spirit in this piece commemorating the 50th anniversary since his 1965 death. His death, exactly two months after that of Malcolm X, was from cancer resulting from radiation experiments he was subjected to while a political prisoner of the US. This anniversary marked a grim time in my move to Puerto Rico, one in which I asked his spirit for the strength to persevere here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/1734573437225-8B0IINRC8RDPD7X0ZT5Q/2015NebulaIsabelitaYasminHernandez.jpg Art - Nebulas "Nébula: Isabel Rosado", 2015. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on black velour, 18" x 24". Nationalist revolutionary leader, former political prisoner, life-long activist, Doña Isabel Rosado is a floating spirit nebula with a white veil and raised fist, for all the stereotypes she defied and destroyed in her life-long revolutionary trajectory. She fought for Puerto Rican independence till her death at 107 years old, the same year this work was created. Alt Text: Yasmin Hernandez’ portrait of revolutionary elder Isabel Rosado as a nebula in the blues, reds and white of the Puerto Rican flag, wearing a white veil, with raised fist in the air. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/1734573437225-8B0IINRC8RDPD7X0ZT5Q/2015NebulaIsabelitaYasminHernandez.jpg Art - Nebulas "Nébula: Isabel Rosado," 2015. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on black velour, 18 x 24 inches. Nationalist revolutionary leader, former political prisoner, life-long activist, Doña Isabel Rosado is a floating spirit nebula with a white veil and raised fist, for all the stereotypes she defied and destroyed in her life-long revolutionary trajectory. She fought for Puerto Rican independence till her death at 107 years old, the same year this work was created. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/af79a5bd-04eb-42f5-be9e-905481ed5718/2014YasminHernandezArtNacimiento.jpg Art - Nebulas "Nacimiento". Yasmin Hernandez. 2014 Digital Montage on paper, 18" x 12". This image is of the moment that my midwife Sakina O'Uhuru placed my second son Josef in my arms after I birthed him in our bedroom. His dad & brother look on. I describe the physical & spiritual intensity of my sons' births as my having had to go out into the universe to get their spirits and bring them back. That is what I depict in this image with Josef and I out in the nebula. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/af79a5bd-04eb-42f5-be9e-905481ed5718/2014YasminHernandezArtNacimiento.jpg Art - Nebulas "Nacimiento." 2014. Yasmin Hernandez. Digital Montage on paper, 18 x 12.inches This image is of the moment that my midwife Sakina O'Uhuru placed my second son Josef in my arms after I birthed him in our bedroom. His dad & brother look on. I describe the physical & spiritual intensity of my sons' births as my having had to go out into the universe to get their spirits and bring them back. That is what I depict in this image with Josef and I out in the nebula. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/d1e9bda9-5893-4609-be67-7401b30a4aaa/2014YasminHernandezArtBlackGoldweb.jpg Art - Nebulas "Black Gold of the Sun", 2014. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on canvas, 36" x 18". Self-portrait representing my 1st pregnancy. The image is inspired by the sun and solar flares, while references the lower three chakras (groundedness, seat of emotions, personal power) for the lessons revealed and embodied during that first pregnancy and home birth. The title is taken from the 1970s song by Rotary Connection. This is one of the last paintings I created in New York before rematriating to Puerto Rico. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/d1e9bda9-5893-4609-be67-7401b30a4aaa/2014YasminHernandezArtBlackGoldweb.jpg Art - Nebulas "Black Gold of the Sun," 2014. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 18 inches. This self-portrait represents my 1st pregnancy. The image is inspired by the sun and solar flares, while referencing the lower three chakras (root/ grounding, seat of emotions, personal power) for the lessons revealed and embodied during that first pregnancy and home birth. The title is taken from the 1970s song by Rotary Connection of the same title. This is one of the last paintings I created in New York before moving to Puerto Rico. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/463b0351-6ee9-42a4-a35b-dde7e237bb43/2014LecheBlancaYasminHernandez.jpg Art - Nebulas "Leche blanca de la luna", 2014. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on canvas, 36" x 18". Self-portrait representing my 1st pregnancy. The image is inspired by the sun and solar flares, while references the lower three chakras (groundedness, seat of emotions, personal power) for the lessons revealed and embodied during that first pregnancy and home birth. The title is taken from the 1970s song by Rotary Connection. This is one of the last paintings I created in New York before rematriating to Puerto Rico. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/463b0351-6ee9-42a4-a35b-dde7e237bb43/2014LecheBlancaYasminHernandez.jpg Art - Nebulas "Leche blanca de la luna," 2014. Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 18 inches. This self-portrait represents my pregnancy with my second son. Painted in the colors of the upper three chakras (communication, intuition, spirituality/ connection to divinity) it references the lessons embodied in that pregnancy. The title (White milk of the moon) is borrowed from a lyric of Draco Rosa's song "Madre Tierra." I use it here to reference my experiences working with a midwife for my homebirths, honoring the lunar calendar and the moon’s role in pregnancy, birthing and breastfeeding. This is another work created in the weeks leading to my move to Puerto Rico from NYC. https://yasminhernandez.art/art/portraitsfromthetrench monthly 0.5 2025-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/7b5bbc73-a55c-43fa-b51f-c43bc3f8dafc/InteroceanCosmicMarineSpecies.RematriatingBoriken.YasminHernandez.jpg Art - Portraits From The Trench "Inter-ocean, Cosmic Marine Species," 2023 Yasmin Hernandez Portraits from the Trench Acrylic on black velour, 59 x 53 inches "We, another interocean, cosmic, marine species of colonial refugees emerge like mermaids from the sea.” -Excerpt, Rematriating Borikén Manifesto This painting combines portraits of Susimar, Max, Lilly, Leo, Janía, & Rosie, all on the rematriation journey, currently living in el oeste de Borikén. The first half left Puerto Rico and returned, the latter three moved to the archipelago from New York and Boston. After receiving the NALAC grant for the creation of the portraits on black velvet, I began the interviews in preparation for the paintings. These were the first people to be interviewed in the Studio Sessions at CucubaNación, my studio/ art space in Mayagüez, against a black background and lighting evoking the bioluminescence of the abyss. Channeling the abyss is a metaphor for navigating the darkness of colonialism, power outages and climate change. As the first painting of this series not created on canvas, it was an exploration of the fabric and different techniques around lighting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/7b5bbc73-a55c-43fa-b51f-c43bc3f8dafc/InteroceanCosmicMarineSpecies.RematriatingBoriken.YasminHernandez.jpg Art - Portraits From The Trench "Inter-ocean, Cosmic Marine Species," 2023. Yasmin Hernandez, Portraits from the Trench. Acrylic on black velour, 59 x 53 inches. "We, another interocean, cosmic, marine species of colonial refugees emerge like mermaids from the sea.” -Excerpt, Rematriating Borikén Manifesto This painting combines portraits of Susimar, Max, Lilly, Leo, Janía, & Rosie, all on the rematriation journey, currently living in el oeste de Borikén. The first half left Puerto Rico and returned, the latter three moved to the archipelago from New York and Boston. After receiving the NALAC grant for the creation of the portraits on black velvet, I began the interviews in preparation for the paintings. These were the first people to be interviewed in the Studio Sessions at CucubaNación, my studio/ art space in Mayagüez, against a black background and lighting evoking the bioluminescence of the abyss. Channeling the abyss is a metaphor for navigating the darkness of colonialism, power outages and climate change. As the first painting of this series not created on canvas, it was an exploration of the fabric and different techniques around lighting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/35bf0b9c-ec95-4c6a-a221-9c0fc62d3a74/515_RematriatingBoriken_YasminHernandez.jpg Art - Portraits From The Trench "515" (Gabriel), 2024 Yasmin Hernandez Portraits from the Trench Acrylic and sequins on black velvet 40 ¾ x 29 ½ inches Moving into the 2024 Portraits from the Trench series painted on black velvet, I channel this aesthetic from my youth—black power paintings on black velvet, glowing under black lights. I also incorporated sequins simulating scales (though scales are not necessarily seen on deep-sea fish) and mother of pearl, all which catch and reflect light. This double portrait of my son Gabriel marks his age when we arrived, five, and his age at the time of our tenth anniversary, fifteen. We arrived in the archipelago from New York when he was five, in search of a school where he would start Kindergarten. 515 is also a reference to the day we moved: May 15, 2014. The ferocious angler fish with beautiful bioluminescent filaments is the female, a hovering, protective, fierce maternal presence. It is the animal he chose to have represented in his painting and reminds me of the many iterations of motherhood that I have had to embody through the transitions of the move, through hurricanes, apagones, pandemic, earthquakes and more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/35bf0b9c-ec95-4c6a-a221-9c0fc62d3a74/515_RematriatingBoriken_YasminHernandez.jpg Art - Portraits From The Trench "515" (Gabriel), 2024, Yasmin Hernandez. Portraits from the Trench, Acrylic and sequins on black velvet. 40 ¾ x 29 ½ inches. This double portrait of my son Gabriel marks his age when we arrived, five, and his age at the time of our tenth anniversary, fifteen. We arrived in the archipelago from New York when he was five, in search of a school where he would start Kindergarten. 515 is also a reference to the day we moved: May 15, 2014. The ferocious angler fish with beautiful bioluminescent filaments is the female, a hovering, protective, fierce maternal presence. It is the animal he chose to have represented in his painting and reminds me of the many iterations of motherhood that I have had to embody through the transitions of the move, through hurricanes, apagones, pandemic, earthquakes and more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/2ee9fe83-447d-4573-9734-2efe2f0f015b/Ketsia.RematriatingBoriken.YasminHernandez.jpg Art - Portraits From The Trench "Ser el abismo" (Ketsia), 2024 Yasmin Hernandez Portraits from the Trench Acrylic and sequins on black velvet 36 x 30 inches “Nos hemos tenido que lanzar a ese abismo, a esa nada, a ese desconocimiento, a esa incertidumbre tantas y tantas veces… ¿Como yo puedo también ser el abismo… ser esa trinchera?... la respuesta es ese cimarronaje…. Que se escapaba de la hacienda, inventaba nuevas formas de vida en un monte. Por eso para mi me llama un monte también.” -Excerpt, interview with Ketsia, April, 24, 2024 Translation: We have had to lunge into that abyss, that nothingness, that unknown, that uncertainty time and time again. How can I too be the abyss, be that trench? The answer is in that marronage, where one would escape from the plantation, invent new ways of life on a mountain. That is why I too am drawn to the mountain. Likening life in a colony to being forced to face or lunge into the abyss each day, Adjuntas-born and raised artist/ poet Ketsia Camacho Ramos turns to the strategy of learning to become the abyss itself. Learning how to navigate darkness, when to go under the radar and when to emerge from the depths. Requiring one to descend from los montes to the urban centers to study or work becomes the precursor to the ultimate displacement of being forced off the archipelago altogether. Like I longed for Borikén back in Brooklyn, Ketsia, based in Mayagüez, lives with the desire to return to her Adjuntas monte one day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/2ee9fe83-447d-4573-9734-2efe2f0f015b/Ketsia.RematriatingBoriken.YasminHernandez.jpg Art - Portraits From The Trench "Ser el abismo", (Ketsia), 2024. Yasmin Hernandez, Portraits from the Trench. Acrylic and sequins on black velvet, 36 x 30 inches. “Nos hemos tenido que lanzar a ese abismo, a esa nada, a ese desconocimiento, a esa incertidumbre tantas y tantas veces… ¿Como yo puedo también ser el abismo… ser esa trinchera?... la respuesta es ese cimarronaje…. Que se escapaba de la hacienda, inventaba nuevas formas de vida en un monte. Por eso para mi me llama un monte también.” -Excerpt, interview with Ketsia, April, 24, 2024. (Translation: We have had to lunge into that abyss, that nothingness, that unknown, that uncertainty time and time again. How can I too be the abyss, be that trench? The answer is in that maronage, where one would escape from the plantation, invent new ways of life on a mountain. That is why I too am drawn to the mountain.) Likening life in a colony to being forced to face or lunge into the abyss each day, Adjuntas-born and raised artist/ poet Ketsia Camacho Ramos turns to the strategy of learning to become the abyss itself. Learning how to navigate darkness, when to go under the radar and when to emerge from the depths. Requiring one to descend from los montes to the urban centers to study or work becomes the precursor to the ultimate displacement of being forced off the archipelago altogether. Like I longed for Borikén back in Brooklyn, Ketsia, based in Mayagüez, lives with the desire to return to her Adjuntas monte one day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/a3b460a6-418a-4f3c-8b88-cb7400872a06/Javier.RematriatingBoriken.YasminHernandez.jpg Art - Portraits From The Trench "La rematriación descolonizadora" (Javier), 2024 Yasmin Hernandez Portraits from the Trench Acrylic and sequins on black velvet 29 ½ x 19 ½ inches “Esa rematriación es una conexión con lo que somos. En ese sentido es un proceso espiritualmente, simbólicamente, espistemológicamente descolonizador.” -Excerpt, interview with Javier Smith Torres, May 2024 Translation: That rematriation is a reconnection to what we are. In that sense, it is a process that is spiritually, symbolically and epistemologically decolonial. Javier’s heritage extends from Borikén to the Virgin Islands. He returned to the archipelago from New York to pursue his dream of studying at RUM, the University of Puerto Rico’s Mayagüez campus. Now based in the archipelago, he is committed to the decolonization struggle. In his interview, going on to discuss the crucial contributions of the Diaspora, he affirms the “enormous responsibility that we have to this geography,” referencing the archipelago and the people who live here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/a3b460a6-418a-4f3c-8b88-cb7400872a06/Javier.RematriatingBoriken.YasminHernandez.jpg Art - Portraits From The Trench "La rematriación descolonizadora" (Javier), 2024. Yasmin Hernandez, Portraits from the Trench. Acrylic and sequins on black velvet 29 ½ x 19 ½ inches “Esa rematriación es una conexión con lo que somos. En ese sentido es un proceso espiritualmente, simbólicamente, espistemológicamente descolonizador.” -Excerpt, interview with Javier Smith Torres, May 2024. (Translation: That rematriation is a reconnection to what we are. In that sense, it is a process that is spiritually, symbolically and epistemologically decolonial.) Javier’s heritage extends from Borikén to the Virgin Islands. He returned to the archipelago from New York to pursue his dream of studying at RUM, the University of Puerto Rico’s Mayagüez campus. Now based in the archipelago, he is committed to the decolonization struggle. In his interview, going on to discuss the crucial contributions of the Diaspora, he affirms the “enormous responsibility that we have to this geography,” referencing the archipelago and the people who live here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/e683a940-192a-40e5-b06f-ad3db5917572/QuieroMiCantitoDeTierra_RematriatingBoriken_YasminHernandez.jpg Art - Portraits From The Trench "Quiero mi cantito de tierra" (Max), 2024 Yasmin Hernandez Portraits from the Trench Acrylic and sequins on black velvet 32 x 31 ½ inches “Rematriación también tiene que venir del sentido de tu poder tener un espacio y sentirte parte, tener tu casa y también así empezar a soñar... Quiero mi cantito de tierra... es mi derecho y el derecho de nosotres estar en nuestro cantito de tierra.” -Excerpt, interview with Maximilián Adrián, summer 2023 Translation: Rematriation also has to come from being able to have a space and a sense of belonging, have your house and that way begin to dream... I want my little piece of land... it is my right and our right to be on our own little piece of land. Maximilián Adrián had to leave Puerto Rico following Hurricane María. He returned two years later, still feeling he belonged to the archipelago, but feeling he was a part of the Diaspora as well. In his interview, he also recounted his experience going through FEMA hotels in New York and the reasons why it is so necessary to have a right to housing upon returning. He also emphasized the specific struggles around queer and trans people and their need for a safe, sanctuary space to call home, and to feel a sense of belonging. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/e683a940-192a-40e5-b06f-ad3db5917572/QuieroMiCantitoDeTierra_RematriatingBoriken_YasminHernandez.jpg Art - Portraits From The Trench "Quiero mi cantito de tierra" (Max), 2024 Yasmin Hernandez, Portraits from the Trench. Acrylic and sequins on black velvet, 32 x 31 ½ inches. “Rematriación también tiene que venir del sentido de tu poder tener un espacio y sentirte parte, tener tu casa y también así empezar a soñar... Quiero mi cantito de tierra... es mi derecho y el derecho de nosotres estar en nuestro cantito de tierra.” -Excerpt, interview with Maximilián Adrián, summer 2023 Translation: Rematriation also has to come from being able to have a space and a sense of belonging, have your house and that way begin to dream... I want my little piece of land... it is my right and our right to be on our own little piece of land. Maximilián Adrián had to leave Puerto Rico following Hurricane María. He returned two years later, still feeling he belonged to the archipelago, but feeling he was a part of the Diaspora as well. In his interview, he also recounted his experience going through FEMA hotels in New York and the reasons why it is so necessary to have a right to housing upon returning. He also emphasized the specific struggles around queer and trans people and their need for a safe, sanctuary space to call home, and to feel a sense of belonging. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/54579706-4cd6-4d48-85d9-29e66c347a9f/Jania.RematriatingBoriken.YasminHernandez.jpg Art - Portraits From The Trench "La bomba me sostiene" (Janía), 2024 Yasmin Hernandez Portraits from the Trench Acrylic and sequins on black velvet 29 ¾ x 50 inches “En mis años de (re)matriar en esta tierra, he podido describer montes, costas y horizontes que mi abuela misma no pudo apreciar. Es ahí en esos momentos cuando observe un atardecer, cuando me sumerjo en un mar turquesa, cuando me acaricia la brisa de los montes es que descubro que mis ancestres tuvieron que irse para yo econtrarme aquí.” -Excerpt, interview with Janía, summer 2023 Translation: In my years of (re)matriating this land, I’ve been able to describe mountains, coasts and horizons that my own grandmother was not able to appreciate. It is there in those moments when I observe a sunset, when I immerse myself in a turquoise sea, when the cool breeze of the mountains caresses me that I discover that my ancestors had to leave for me to find myself here. In Janía’s own words: I was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. I moved to Borikén when I was eleven years old. Although I’ve been living in Borikén for thirteen years, it wasn’t until I was twenty-three years old that I came to acknowledge and understand that here is where I needed to be. That’s when my rematriation started; the moment I decided that even though living on this tropi-colonia (and all that it implies) has not been easy, I couldn’t see myself wanting to be anywhere else. Being the only person of my immediate family that lives, survives and resists on this archipelago may be a burden for others, but is a purpose for me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/54579706-4cd6-4d48-85d9-29e66c347a9f/Jania.RematriatingBoriken.YasminHernandez.jpg Art - Portraits From The Trench "La bomba me sostiene" (Janía), 2024. Yasmin Hernandez. Portraits from the Trench. Acrylic and sequins on black velvet, 29 ¾ x 50 inches. “En mis años de (re)matriar en esta tierra, he podido describer montes, costas y horizontes que mi abuela misma no pudo apreciar. Es ahí en esos momentos cuando observo un atardecer, cuando me sumerjo en un mar turquesa, cuando me acaricia la brisa de los montes es que descubro que mis ancestres tuvieron que irse para yo econtrarme aquí.” -Excerpt, interview with Janía, summer 2023 (Translation: In my years of (re)matriating this land, I’ve been able to describe mountains, coasts and horizons that my own grandmother was not able to appreciate. It is there in those moments when I observe a sunset, when I immerse myself in a turquoise sea, when the cool breeze of the mountains caresses me that I discover that my ancestors had to leave for me to find myself here. In Janía’s own words: I was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. I moved to Borikén when I was eleven years old. Although I’ve been living in Borikén for thirteen years, it wasn’t until I was twenty-three years old that I came to acknowledge and understand that here is where I needed to be. That’s when my rematriation started; the moment I decided that even though living on this tropi-colonia (and all that it implies) has not been easy, I couldn’t see myself wanting to be anywhere else. Being the only person of my immediate family that lives, survives and resists on this archipelago may be a burden for others, but is a purpose for me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/222ec8fc-85bb-43db-91a2-0243b4e26547/Susimar.RematriatingBoriken.YasminHernandez.jpg Art - Portraits From The Trench "Regresar a tu raíz" (Susimar), 2024 Yasmin Hernandez Portraits from the Trench Acrylic and sequins on black velvet 47 ½ x 30 inches “Rematriar es regresar a tu raíz para sanar, sanarlo todo, el pasado con el presente y el futuro.” -Excerpt, interview with Susimar González Martínez, Summer 2023 Translation: To rematriate is to return to your root to heal, to heal it all, the past with the present and the future. This image is taken from Susi’s Studio Session interview. She arrived wearing this spectacular skirt which created all sorts of effects with the nearby black light. I chose this pose with her fists on her hips, that she naturally took during her interview, because together with the skirt, it reminded me of madamas, ancestral spirit guides whose presence and images I grew up with in my family. Having studied in the archipelago and in Brazil towards a pharmaceutical degree, after living in South Carolina for several years, Susi returned to Borikén following Hurricane María. Originally from Toa Alta, she now runs a farm in Moca, committing to her love of plants and teaching traditional, ancestral farming practices. Susi chose deep-sea coral as her featured abyss organism which in some cases resemble plants. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/222ec8fc-85bb-43db-91a2-0243b4e26547/Susimar.RematriatingBoriken.YasminHernandez.jpg Art - Portraits From The Trench "Regresar a tu raíz" (Susimar), 2024. Yasmin Hernandez, Portraits from the Trench. Acrylic and sequins on black velvet, 47 ½ x 30 inches. “Rematriar es regresar a tu raíz para sanar, sanarlo todo, el pasado con el presente y el futuro.” -Excerpt, interview with Susimar González Martínez, Summer 2023. (Translation: To rematriate is to return to your root to heal, to heal it all, the past with the present and the future.) This image is taken from Susi’s Studio Session interview. She arrived wearing this spectacular skirt which created all sorts of effects with the nearby black light. I chose this pose with her fists on her hips, that she naturally took during her interview, because together with the skirt, it reminded me of madamas, ancestral spirit guides whose presence and images I grew up with in my family. Having studied in the archipelago and in Brazil towards a pharmaceutical degree, after living in South Carolina for several years, Susi returned to Borikén following Hurricane María. Originally from Toa Alta, she now runs a farm in Moca, committing to her love of plants and teaching traditional, ancestral farming practices. Susi chose deep-sea coral as her featured abyss organism which in some cases resemble plants. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/d4ecf93a-5886-4f92-bda2-1f6a09ce9fa5/Myrna.Rematriatingboriken.YasminHernandez.jpg Art - Portraits From The Trench "Arrival" (Myrna), 2024 Yasmin Hernandez Portraits from the Trench Acrylic and sequins on black velvet 30 x 20 ½ inches “My arrival happened before the arrival... Llamado is the feeling that some of us who rematriate experience when we know, by any means necessary, we must get here and that if we don’t a part of us will die.” -Excerpt, interview with Myrna Cabán Lezcano February 2024 Myrna is a community herbalist, educator, cultural organizer and the creator of Sánate Boricua, a collective working to bring ancestral medicine, healing clinics and wellness workshops to our people in el oeste de Borikén. At the time of our interview, Myrna had just completed her first year in the archipelago and was able to provide insight from a very fresh perspective from the Diaspora and the impact of her observations of life in the archipelago. Within that first year, Sánate Boricua was already up and running, offering spaces for collective healing practices. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/d4ecf93a-5886-4f92-bda2-1f6a09ce9fa5/Myrna.Rematriatingboriken.YasminHernandez.jpg Art - Portraits From The Trench "Arrival" (Myrna), 2024, Yasmin Hernandez. Portraits from the Trench, Acrylic and sequins on black velvet, 30 x 20 ½ inches. “My arrival happened before the arrival... Llamado is the feeling that some of us who rematriate experience when we know, by any means necessary, we must get here and that if we don’t a part of us will die.” -Excerpt, interview with Myrna Cabán Lezcano February 2024 Myrna is a community herbalist, educator, cultural organizer and the creator of Sánate Boricua, a collective working to bring ancestral medicine, healing clinics and wellness workshops to our people in el oeste de Borikén. At the time of our interview, Myrna had just completed her first year in the archipelago and was able to provide insight from a very fresh perspective from the Diaspora and the impact of her observations of life in the archipelago. Within that first year, Sánate Boricua was already up and running, offering spaces for collective healing practices. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/fbb2f639-4b87-44fa-b530-19b30da99b5f/Meli_RematriatingBoriken_YasminHernandezArt2024.jpg Art - Portraits From The Trench "Reclaiming the Matriarchal" (Meli) Yasmin Hernandez Portraits from the Trench Acrylic and sequins on black velvet 29 ½ x 19 ½ inches “The difference between repatriation and rematriation is that focus on reclaiming or restoring the matriarchal wisdom.” -Excerpt, Interview with Melissa Rosario, March 2024 One of the early voices lifting the term rematriation in the archipelago, Melissa, originally from New York, is the author of Beyond Disaster: Building Collective Futures in Puerto Rico and co-founder and co-director of CEPA, a healing justice project committed to decolonization. Meli’s interview did not take place at my studio but at la Casa taller de CEPA en Río Piedras before a large Palestinian flag and surrounded by all the ancestral plants that they themselves have planted. Working with embodied practices and the reinserting of one’s body back in the ancestral lands, as Meli describes it, I was struck by the oasis they had forged in the middle of an urban area. CEPA hosts solidarity visits for folks from the Diaspora committed to healing as a liberation practice and wishing for a space to reconnect and build in the archipelago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/fbb2f639-4b87-44fa-b530-19b30da99b5f/Meli_RematriatingBoriken_YasminHernandezArt2024.jpg Art - Portraits From The Trench "Reclaiming the Matriarchal" (Meli), Yasmin Hernandez. Portraits from the Trench. Acrylic and sequins on black velvet, 29 ½ x 19 ½ inches. “The difference between repatriation and rematriation is that focus on reclaiming or restoring the matriarchal wisdom.” -Excerpt, Interview with Melissa Rosario, March 2024 One of the early voices lifting the term rematriation in the archipelago, Melissa, originally from New York, is the author of Another Country: A Counter History of Puerto Rico in Crisis and co-founder and co-director of CEPA, a healing justice project committed to decolonization. Meli’s interview did not take place at my studio but at la Casa taller de CEPA en Río Piedras before a large Palestinian flag and surrounded by all the ancestral plants that they themselves have planted. Working with embodied practices and the reinserting of one’s body back in the ancestral lands, as Meli describes it, I was struck by the oasis they had forged in the middle of an urban area. CEPA hosts solidarity visits for folks from the Diaspora committed to healing as a liberation practice and wishing for a space to reconnect and build in the archipelago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/4b1442f1-b9d6-4d7b-9a22-85c0cced257a/Rosie.RematriatingBoriken.YasminHernandez.jpg Art - Portraits From The Trench "I’d Rather Be in the Womb" (Rosie), 2024 Yasmin Hernandez Portraits from the Trench Acrylic and sequins on black velvet 48 x 29 ½ inches “I’d rather be in the womb than be taken from the womb. I’d rather be in the womb of the ocean than be taken on top of the ocean on a boat that spills oil. It was the water that drew me here.” -Excerpt from interview with Rosie Díaz, Summer 2023 Born and raised in the Bronx, Rosie has been living in the archipelago for over thirty years. Back when she lived in Seattle, an accident left her unable to walk. With the help of a massage therapist, she fully recovered. Inspired to become a massage therapist too, she moved to the archipelago to bring her healing practice to her people. She credits the waters off Playa Jobos in Isabela as luring her here, where she continues her love for dancing and playing bomba and teaches yoga. Rosie has been a consistent presence in my family’s life throughout my rematriation journey and has also helped my mother with her transition here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/4b1442f1-b9d6-4d7b-9a22-85c0cced257a/Rosie.RematriatingBoriken.YasminHernandez.jpg Art - Portraits From The Trench "I’d Rather Be in the Womb" (Rosie), 2024. Yasmin Hernandez. Portraits from the Trench. Acrylic and sequins on black velvet, 48 x 29 ½ inches. “I’d rather be in the womb than be taken from the womb. I’d rather be in the womb of the ocean than be taken on top of the ocean on a boat that spills oil... It was the water that drew me here.” -Excerpt from interview with Rosie Díaz, Summer 2023. Born and raised in the Bronx, Rosie has been living in the archipelago for over thirty years. Back when she lived in Seattle, an accident left her unable to walk. With the help of a massage therapist, she fully recovered. Inspired to become a massage therapist too, she moved to the archipelago to bring her healing practice to her people. She credits the waters off Playa Jobos in Isabela as luring her here, where she continues her love for dancing and playing bomba, and teaches yoga. Rosie has been a consistent presence in my family’s life throughout my rematriation journey and has also helped my mother with her transition here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/1731160571494-V310RD51DT1HTAOK3BB1/Marisol_RematriatingBoriken_YasminHernandez2024.jpg Art - Portraits From The Trench “Es aquí donde yo pertenezco” (Marisol) 2024. (Here is where I belong) Yasmin Hernandez. Acrylic and sequins on black velvet, 30 x 25”. “El Huracán María fue el punto donde hubo esa transformación. De alguna manera fuimos libres, y creamos nuestros propios sistemas para seguir. Dentro de todo este caos, sí hay libertad. Todo ese dolor lo que hizo fue limpiar esa nube que no permitía que yo viera que yo soy de aquí, que es aquí donde yo pertenezco” (Hurricane María was the point of transformation. Somehow we were free, and we created our own systems to move forward. Within all this chaos, yes there is freedom. What all that pain did was clear that cloud that would allow me to see that I am from here, that it is here where I belong.) Marisol came to her interview wanting to center this kufiya gifted to her by her friend’s family who was visiting from Palestine. Puerto Rico has a Palestinian community. We share communities with the Palestinian diaspora displaced since the first Nakba of 1948, before and since. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/1731160571494-V310RD51DT1HTAOK3BB1/Marisol_RematriatingBoriken_YasminHernandez2024.jpg Art - Portraits From The Trench "Es aquí donde yo pertenezco" (Marisol), 2024. Yasmin Hernandez. Portraits from the Trench. Acrylic and sequins on black velvet. “El Huracán María fue el punto donde hubo esa transformación. De alguna manera fuimos libres y creamos nuestros propios sistemas para seguir... Dentro de todo este caos, sí hay Libertad... Todo ese dolor lo que hizo fue limpiar esa nube que no permitia que yo viera que yo soy de aquí, que es aquí donde yo pertenezco. Translation: (Hurricane María was that point of transformation. In some way we were free and created our own systems to move forward.... Within all that chaos, yes there is freedom... What all of that pain did was clean that cloud that didn’t allow me to see that I am from here, that it is here where I belong.) -From Marisol's interview Feb 2024 Marisol came to her Studio Session interview with this keffiyeh, wanting to ensure that she represented her solidarity with the people of Palestine. The keffiyeh was gifted to her by a Palestinian friend in San Sebastián, where they live. Way before October 7, 2023, the first Nakba in 1948 led to the mass displacement of Palestinians. Puerto Rico is a part of that Diaspora with a significant Palestinian community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/3e1b5ecb-d278-4a3d-92b7-49843d68d012/Yari.RematriatingBoriken.YasminHernandez.jpg Art - Portraits From The Trench https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/3e1b5ecb-d278-4a3d-92b7-49843d68d012/Yari.RematriatingBoriken.YasminHernandez.jpg Art - Portraits From The Trench "El coraje me sostiene" (Yarí) 2024. Yasmin Hernandez. Portraits from the Trench. Acrylic and sequins on black velvet. 29 1/2 x 24 1/2". Yo vivo con coraje, vivo con dolor. Amor a mi país. Y yo creo que lo que me sostiene aquí es que me rehuso a que a mi me vuelvan a desplazar. (Translation: I live with rage, live with pain. Love for my country. And I think that what sustains me here is that I refuse to be displaced again.) Yarí's interview speaks to the colonial conditions that we live in Puerto Rico and to the role of rage in sustaining her here, and driving her work and mission here. Yarí is also an artist, dancer and farmer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/e666715d-fd16-4d8f-a6c8-20550664202b/Matthew_RematriatingBoriken_YasminHernandez2024.jpg Art - Portraits From The Trench https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/e666715d-fd16-4d8f-a6c8-20550664202b/Matthew_RematriatingBoriken_YasminHernandez2024.jpg Art - Portraits From The Trench "One Womb to the Next." (Matthew), 2024. Yasmin Hernandez. Portraits from the Trench. Acrylic and sequins on black velvet. "Learning about my history has helped me reframe the traumas of relocation from one womb to the next."... "My balcony looks out over Cerro Pichón in San Sebastián so I see where my family is from every time I wake up. I look out and there it is. There’s my Wakanda." -From Matthew's interview, March 2024. Born in New York, raised in Florida, now living in San Sebastián, Matthew chose the siphonophore as his abyss creature. These fascinating creatures are not singular at all but a community of organisms forming a chain, working together symbiotically. My marine biologist friend Thay, upon seeing the portrait, shared that siphonophores announce approaching storms when they rise to the surface. Matthew was born on the night of Hurricane Gloria, the first hurricane I remember experiencing in New York as a child. https://yasminhernandez.art/art/cucubanacion monthly 0.5 2025-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/63564033-7fa3-43c9-987e-14de500e8f5a/LuisaCosmica_YasminHernandezArt_2004_wtrm.jpg Art - CucubaNacion "Luisa Cósmica" 2022 Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 24 inches "Existirá el libre cambio pues estarán abolidas las fronteras y la verdadera Libertad reinará en este planeta. Procura tu ayudar con la práctica a la realización de estas..." (Free exchange would exist as borders would be abolished and true liberation would reign on this planet. Seek to help with the practice of realizing these...) Luisa Capetillo was a Puerto Rican labor organizer, writer, activist, anarchist and espiritista. She wrote Puerto Rico's first feminist text in 1911, Mi Opinion sobre las libertades, derechos y deberes de la mujer. History most remembers her for wearing pants and being arrested for doing so but the depths and breadth of her writing, which was eons before its time, is her greatest achievement. This work envisions her as a luminous spirit. The painting was created for a tribute exhibit on the centennial of her passing at Casa Ulanga in Arecibo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/63564033-7fa3-43c9-987e-14de500e8f5a/LuisaCosmica_YasminHernandezArt_2004_wtrm.jpg Art - CucubaNacion "Luisa Cósmica" 2022 Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 24 inches "Existirá el libre cambio pues estarán abolidas las fronteras y la verdadera Libertad reinará en este planeta. Procura tu ayudar con la práctica a la realización de estas..." (Free exchange would exist as borders would be abolished and true liberation would reign on this planet. Seek to help with the practice of realizing these...) Luisa Capetillo was a Puerto Rican labor organizer, writer, activist, anarchist and espiritista. She wrote Puerto Rico's first feminist text in 1911, Mi Opinion sobre las libertades, derechos y deberes de la mujer. History most remembers her for wearing pants and being arrested for doing so but the depths and breadth of her writing, which was eons before its time, is her greatest achievement. This work envisions her as a luminous spirit. The painting was created for a tribute exhibit on the centennial of her passing at Casa Ulanga in Arecibo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/51d1992e-53d8-4199-bf0c-bf22446e73b0/CucubanoMayor_YasminHernandez_wm.jpg Art - CucubaNacion "El Cucubano Mayor" 2020 (Rafael Cancel Miranda) Acrylic on canvas, 18 x 24 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/51d1992e-53d8-4199-bf0c-bf22446e73b0/CucubanoMayor_YasminHernandez_wm.jpg Art - CucubaNacion "El Cucubano Mayor" 2020 (Rafael Cancel Miranda) Acrylic on canvas, 18 x 24 inches Portrait of Rafael Cancel Miranda as cucubano, bioluminescent click beetle. I completed this painting right before he passed, in the light of our bioluminescent beetles. He is the first portrait of this series that I paint with brown tones. My first cucubano paintings are of green figures and the rest are inspired by common fireflies (red, black, yellow, green). But don Rafa as one of the last Puerto Rican Nationalist combatants of the 50s had to be the first painted in this way, for all the romance and legend connected to cucubanos in Puerto Rico. I debuted the portrait on the anniversary of the March 1st, 1954 attack in Washington, for which he spent 25 years as a political prisoner in the US. He went on to the realm of the ancestors the following evening, March 2nd, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/cc58bcff-3e2f-4f63-9471-16f4462bfdd5/YasminHernandezArt_LolitaLuna_2019.jpg Art - CucubaNacion "Ya yo vi la luna" (Lolita Lebrón) 2019 Acrylic on canvas, 14 x 18 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/cc58bcff-3e2f-4f63-9471-16f4462bfdd5/YasminHernandezArt_LolitaLuna_2019.jpg Art - CucubaNacion "Ya yo vi la luna" (Lolita Lebrón) 2019. Acrylic on canvas, 14 x 18 inches. I started this piece on March 1st, 2018, when the full moon coincided with the anniversary of the mission Lolita Lebrón led (of which Rafael Cancel Miranda was a part) in Washington that date in 1954 to protest US colonialism in Puerto Rico. Lolita served 25 years is US federal prisons as a result. I later added to the piece, completing it in November 2019 when we commemorated the centennial of Lolita’s birth. It includes a quote from Lolita's interview with Dr. Consuelo Martinez-Reyes. “Ya yo vi la luna: la última entrevista a Lolita Lebrón." Contemplating her transition at over 90 years old she said “I will be able to better appreciate the air, the stars, the sun. I have already seen the moon.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/725de7c5-a0a7-4a81-93e2-901124f7351b/YasminHernandezArt_FlyPapi2019wm.jpg Art - CucubaNacion "Fly Papi" 2019. (Portrait of my father) Acrylic on black fabric, 38 x 30 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/725de7c5-a0a7-4a81-93e2-901124f7351b/YasminHernandezArt_FlyPapi2019wm.jpg Art - CucubaNacion "Fly Papi" 2019. (Portrait of my father) Acrylic on black fabric, 38 x 30 inches. Portrait of my father in the 1980s, from my CucubaNación series inspired by fireflies and bioluminescence. Red heads, black bodies with yellow outlines and green glows are the colors of the common firefly, colors of black liberation. With this portrait series I affirm Puerto Rico’s place within the African diaspora. I painted my father in the dashikis he was known for wearing during my childhood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/58ce5d0c-38dd-4575-9933-bb8750191c83/YasminHernandez_LuzQueMeAlumbra.jpg Art - CucubaNacion "La Luz que me alumbra," 2019 Acrylic on canvas, 24 x 30 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/58ce5d0c-38dd-4575-9933-bb8750191c83/YasminHernandez_LuzQueMeAlumbra.jpg Art - CucubaNacion "La Luz que me alumbra," 2019 Acrylic on canvas, 24 x 30 inches In this self-portrait with my mother I consider the glow of fireflies in the same way I work with nebulas to represent spirit energy. Thinking that I needed a title for this piece, a few minutes later the song I was listening to, “Soy Canastero”, a bulería by Diego Cigala sang “tu eres la luz que me alumbra” (you are the light that illuminates me). My mother's image is inspired by Taíno mother goddess Atabey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/69febe80-a36f-4239-965f-4245d1ea510c/NinaDroz_YasminHernandezArt_2019.jpg Art - CucubaNacion "Amante de la libertad" (Nina Droz Franco) 2019 Acrylic on canvas, 24 x 18 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/69febe80-a36f-4239-965f-4245d1ea510c/NinaDroz_YasminHernandezArt_2019.jpg Art - CucubaNacion "Amante de la libertad" (Nina Droz Franco) 2019. Acrylic on canvas, 24 x 18 inches Portrait of the recently released Puerto Rican political prisoner Nina Droz Franco, as a firefly channeling the warrior spirit of the indigenous ancestors of these lands. Nina was arrested at the protests against the colonial debt and severe austerity measures on May Day 2017. She was released in late 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/ca987f53-c462-4d4e-826e-1b2851463acc/ShineYourLight_Exonerated5_YasminHernandezArt_2019.jpg Art - CucubaNacion "Shine Your Light" (Exonerated Five), 2019. Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/ca987f53-c462-4d4e-826e-1b2851463acc/ShineYourLight_Exonerated5_YasminHernandezArt_2019.jpg Art - CucubaNacion "Shine Your Light" (Exonerated Five), 2019. Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48 inches. Left to right: Yusef Salaam, Kevin Richardson, Korey Wise, Raymond Santana, Antron McCray. This portrait juxtaposes the boys of the Central Park Five with their images as men: the Exonerated Five. I was 14 in 1989, same age as several of the boys at the time of their arrest, and was transformed deeply after watching Duvernay’s When They See Us. I felt it was necessary to paint them shining their light, inspired by fireflies (red heads, black wings with yellow outlines and green glow: colors of black liberation.) This painting is a commentary on injustice, the stealing of the innocence of black boys, the violation of black men across the planet and a meditation on, and call to lift, the divine masculine. Included is a lyric excerpt from Yasiin Bey’s "Umi Says"- “Shine your light for the world to see…. I want black people to be free, to be free, to be free …. That’s all that matters to me.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/86d9dbf9-f8f3-4b53-a4b5-a37c2779383e/CucubaNacion_YasminHernandezArt_ShineYourLight_Exonerated5_Detail_2019.jpg Art - CucubaNacion Detail, "Shine Your Light" (Exonerated Five), 2019. Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/86d9dbf9-f8f3-4b53-a4b5-a37c2779383e/CucubaNacion_YasminHernandezArt_ShineYourLight_Exonerated5_Detail_2019.jpg Art - CucubaNacion Detail, "Shine Your Light" (Exonerated Five), 2019. Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48 inches Left to right" Korey Wise, Raymond Santana, Antron McCray https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/044119fe-ec74-4eff-8b59-476b83560287/CucubaNacionHermandad_Bioluminiscente2018_YasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - CucubaNacion "Hermandad Bioluminiscente", 2018. Acrylic on Canvas. 30 x 24 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/044119fe-ec74-4eff-8b59-476b83560287/CucubaNacionHermandad_Bioluminiscente2018_YasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - CucubaNacion "Hermandad Bioluminiscente", 2018. Acrylic on Canvas. 30 x 24 inches. Painted in the color of our bioluminescent bay, this portrait of legendary Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos (on the right) and her sister Consuelo chronicles their love across waters with excerpts of letters Julia would write to Consuelo and of her poems. “Looking at you is seeing myself whole in light, rolling in blue.” Their inter-ocean sisterhood between New York and Puerto Rico reminds me of my own experience having most of my family in the states while I am in Puerto Rico, and of the many families of the Caribbean islands and coastal communities displaced by the storms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/07f464c9-803d-4fa3-bea6-7f997e59eb3d/YasminHernandezArt_Joefish.jpg Art - CucubaNacion "Bioluminescent Brother," 2019. Acrylic on dark blue fabric, 32 x 43 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/07f464c9-803d-4fa3-bea6-7f997e59eb3d/YasminHernandezArt_Joefish.jpg Art - CucubaNacion "Bioluminescent Brother," 2019. Acrylic on dark blue fabric, 32 x 43 inches. This is my oceanic/ celestial/ bioluminescent B-Boy brother Joseph. We lost him at 43 to Multiple Myeloma, a blood cancer. I finished this painting at precisely the same age (minus a week) that he was when he died. He grew up with hip hop, a child of music, of graffiti, a food lover. I first started painting bioluminescence in 2009 for a painting series dedicated to Vieques. He received his cancer diagnosis while I was on a research trip to Vieques in 2008. I painted him alongside the fish that gave him so much peace in his times of battle and the majestic bioluminescence of the waters of our ancestors. My spirit owes a huge part of its evolution to the honor of having been born his sister. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/4628cb99-5370-4992-b071-d816e00d5fc8/Betances+Bioluminiscente.jpg Art - CucubaNacion "Betances Bioluminescente," 2018. Acrylic on canvas, 18 x 36 inches. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/4628cb99-5370-4992-b071-d816e00d5fc8/Betances+Bioluminiscente.jpg Art - CucubaNacion "Betances Bioluminiscente," 2018. Acrylic on canvas, 18 x 36 inches. Betances, father of the Puerto Rican Nationality, abolitionist, fought in the French Revolution and authored the Lares Revolution of 1868. As a journalist and novelist, his pen name was el Antillano (the Antillean) describing his work as a physician and commitment to the health of communities in Puerto Rico, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, the Virgin Islands and Cuba. I painted him emerging from colonial post-María darkness to anoint and illuminate the Antilles with healing bioluminescent waters flowing from his hands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/6852f0f9-3554-41b3-bee2-4ec89efe2531/FlordeJusticia_convento_YasminHernandeArt.jpg Art - CucubaNacion "Flor de Justicia" (Alma Yarida Cruz). 2018. Acrylic on black fabric, 8 x 4 feet Lyrics by Rita Indiana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/6852f0f9-3554-41b3-bee2-4ec89efe2531/FlordeJusticia_convento_YasminHernandeArt.jpg Art - CucubaNacion "Flor de Justicia" (Alma Yarida Cruz). 2018. Acrylic on black fabric, 8 x 4 feet Lyrics by Rita Indiana 2018. Acrylic on black fabric 8' x 4' Lyric excerpt by Rita Indiana: Clavo con clavo/ Soga con sal/ To' lo corrupto van a temblar/ Cuando me suba el castigador/ Flor de Justicia del trovador In Puerto Rico, 2017, when she was just 11 years old, Alma Yarida Cruz’ school principal called the police and had her arrested for standing up to her bullies who teased her for being black. The community came to her defense & together with the efforts of her lawyer were able to get the case dismissed. Alma was the first portrait I painted in this color scheme inspired by the common lightning bug, colors also associated with African liberation. With this image and palette, I anchor Puerto Rico’s place in the African Diaspora, and use a West African adinkra symbol of justice (tamfo bebre) on her headband. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/cbc34f19-edb6-422f-95b3-6f7b24c9fed0/FlordeJusticia_detalle_YasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - CucubaNacion Detail, "Flor de Justicia" (Alma Yarida Cruz). 2018. Acrylic on black fabric, 8 x 4 feet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/cbc34f19-edb6-422f-95b3-6f7b24c9fed0/FlordeJusticia_detalle_YasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - CucubaNacion Detail, "Flor de Justicia" (Alma Yarida Cruz). 2018. Acrylic on black fabric, 8 x 4 feet 2018. Acrylic on black fabric 8' x 4' Lyric excerpt by Rita Indiana: Clavo con clavo/ Soga con sal/ To' lo corrupto van a temblar/ Cuando me suba el castigador/ Flor de Justicia del trovador In Puerto Rico, 2017, when she was 11 years old, Alma Yarida Cruz’ school principal called the police and had her arrested for standing up to her bullies who teased her for being black. The community came to her defense & together with the efforts of her lawyer were able to get the case dismissed. Alma was the first portrait I painted in this color scheme inspired by the common lightning bug, colors also associated with African liberation. With this image and palette, I anchor Puerto Rico’s place in the African Diaspora, and use a West African adinkra symbol of justice (tamfo bebre) on her headband. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/580cde2c-2a21-4bf9-bcf7-a81fb5e0d93c/YasminHernandezArt_lasmaravillosashuerteritas.jpg Art - CucubaNacion "Las Maravillosas Huerteritas", 2018 Acrylic on black fabric. 8 x 4 feet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/580cde2c-2a21-4bf9-bcf7-a81fb5e0d93c/YasminHernandezArt_lasmaravillosashuerteritas.jpg Art - CucubaNacion "Las Maravillosas Huerteritas", 2018 Acrylic on black fabric. 8 x 4 feet 2018 Acrylic on black fabric 8' x 4' Lyric excerpts by Digable Planets (I’m interplanetary/ My insect movements vary.... Peace be the greeting of the insect tribe). El Maravillos Huerto de los Niños (The Wonderful Children’s Garden) was started by my friend Lin Benitez in Vega Baja, Puerto Rico after her community experienced seven months of no lights following the storms. Their school was used as a shelter, so for many months the children roamed bored around the community. Lin manages the collection of donated tools and seeds from various sources and leads the children in the planting and harvest of herbs, fruits and vegetables with the children. The lyrics from Digable Planets speak to the transcendence and love ethic they found inspired by insects, which I use as a metaphor here for the work in this community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/57546083-faf3-499f-806f-64f17d5745e3/CucubaNacion_NinxsEscolares2018_YasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - CucubaNacion "Niñes Escolares," 2018. Acrylic on Canvas, 24 x 30 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/57546083-faf3-499f-806f-64f17d5745e3/CucubaNacion_NinxsEscolares2018_YasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - CucubaNacion "Niñes Escolares," 2018. Acrylic on Canvas, 24 x 30 inches 2018. Acrylic on Canvas 24" x 30" On May 1st, 2018 in San Juan, the police tear-gassed and pepper-sprayed the crowds that gathered to protest budget cuts to the public university, mass closings of public schools and other austerity measures. Among those present and tear-gassed were school children themselves. Here they take on the traits of cucubanos/ fireflies in defense of their education. They wear gas masks to protect themselves from the riot squad seen in the background amidst the fallen trees and powerlines of our post-hurricanes landscape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/d30a7956-dc16-43bb-884a-5163658d1e60/CucubanacionMural_YasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - CucubaNacion "CucubaNación", 2018. Outdoor Mural, 2 Calle San Vicente, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/d30a7956-dc16-43bb-884a-5163658d1e60/CucubanacionMural_YasminHernandezArt.jpg Art - CucubaNacion "CucubaNación", 2018. Outdoor Mural, 2 Calle San Vicente, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 2018. Outdoor Mural, 2 Calle San Vicente, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico Approx. 8’ x 10’ “We shall be cucubanos/ Emitting our light/ Illuminated with love/ Repelling enemies” –CucubaNación “To see certain things, other eyes are needed, the eyes of the spirit.”- Eugenio María de Hostos. I created this work, with the help of my sons, for the Mayaguez Campechada art festival (dedicated to Hostos) following the May Day clash between protestors and riot squads in San Juan. 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CucubaNación Arte https://yasminhernandez.art/arte/afroborilibertaria monthly 0.5 2025-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/b633017e-a77f-4f4a-89ec-1b20ba37aab0/2024_SDamaryBurgos_Heliconias.JPG Arte - Afro.Bori.Libertaria S. Damary Burgos. "Heliconia de gratitud", 2024. Acrílico sobre pellón. Esta pieza recrea las heliconias como machetes anaranjados dentro del verde de sus ojas y del patio de Filiberto. Desde el balcón de su casa se honran y nos dan la bienvenida, personas afrodescendientes e indígenas que le dan continuidad actualmente a estas luchas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/b633017e-a77f-4f4a-89ec-1b20ba37aab0/2024_SDamaryBurgos_Heliconias.JPG Arte - Afro.Bori.Libertaria S. Damary Burgos. "Heliconia de gratitud", 2024. Acrílico sobre pellón. Esta pieza recrea las heliconias como machetes anaranjados dentro del verde de sus ojas y del patio de Filiberto. Desde el balcón de su casa se honran y nos dan la bienvenida, personas afrodescendientes e indígenas que le dan continuidad actualmente a estas luchas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/cda6f4d2-ecb5-4757-b992-de88c886bc30/2024DamaryBurgos_FrutasLibertarias.jpg Arte - Afro.Bori.Libertaria S. Damary Burgos. "Frutas libertarias", 2024 Acrilico sobre pellón. (Assata Shakur, Mumia Abu Jamal, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Miguel Sánchez, Pedro Albizu Campos.) En la cocina hay dos cortinas donde predominan las frutas tropicales de la finca de Filiberto entrelazadas con la huella de sartenes y moldes que enmarcan los retratos de luchadores afrodescendientes e indígenas reseñados en la biblioteca. Los colores de las obras contrastan con una cantidad impresionante de balazos. Las obras no buscan adornar la crudeza mortal sino recorder la cotianidad de la vida familiar tipica de dicho espacio íntimo antes del 23 de septiembre, 2005. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/cda6f4d2-ecb5-4757-b992-de88c886bc30/2024DamaryBurgos_FrutasLibertarias.jpg Arte - Afro.Bori.Libertaria S. Damary Burgos. "Frutas libertarias", 2024 Acrilico sobre pellón. (Assata Shakur, Mumia Abu Jamal, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Miguel Sánchez, Pedro Albizu Campos.) En la cocina hay dos cortinas donde predominan las frutas tropicales de la finca de Filiberto entrelazadas con la huella de sartenes y moldes que enmarcan los retratos de luchadores afrodescendientes e indígenas reseñados en la biblioteca. Los colores de las obras contrastan con una cantidad impresionante de balazos. Las obras no buscan adornar la crudeza mortal sino recorder la cotianidad de la vida familiar tipica de dicho espacio íntimo antes del 23 de septiembre, 2005. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/7628475e-8d6a-466b-acc0-bbf824568015/2024DamaryBurgos_Patria_deSemillasYAves.jpg Arte - Afro.Bori.Libertaria S. Damary Burgos. "Frutas libertarias", 2024 Acrílico sobre pellón. (Fidel Castro. Dominga de la Cruz Becerril. Hugo Chavéz. Malcolm X. Angela Davis. Filiberto Ojeda Ríos. Nelson Mandela. ) Esta es una de dos piezas en la cocina creadas como cortinas en donde predominan las frutas tropicales de la finca de Filiberto entrelazadas con la huella de sartenes y moldes que enmarcan los retratos de luchadores afrodescendientes e indígenas reseñados en la biblioteca. Los colores de las obras contrastan con una cantidad impresionante de balazos. Las obras no buscan adornar la crudeza mortal sino recorder la cotianidad de la vida familiar tipica de dicho espacio íntimo antes del 23 de septiembre, 2005. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/7628475e-8d6a-466b-acc0-bbf824568015/2024DamaryBurgos_Patria_deSemillasYAves.jpg Arte - Afro.Bori.Libertaria S. Damary Burgos. "Frutas libertarias", 2024 Acrílico sobre pellón. (Fidel Castro. Dominga de la Cruz Becerril. Hugo Chavéz. Malcolm X. Angela Davis. Filiberto Ojeda Ríos. Nelson Mandela. ) Esta es una de dos piezas en la cocina creadas como cortinas en donde predominan las frutas tropicales de la finca de Filiberto entrelazadas con la huella de sartenes y moldes que enmarcan los retratos de luchadores afrodescendientes e indígenas reseñados en la biblioteca. Los colores de las obras contrastan con una cantidad impresionante de balazos. Las obras no buscan adornar la crudeza mortal sino recorder la cotianidad de la vida familiar tipica de dicho espacio íntimo antes del 23 de septiembre, 2005. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/68f94a8b-5f9b-4ba1-adfa-acad43862120/2024_SDamaryBurgos_Caribe.JPG Arte - Afro.Bori.Libertaria S. Damary Burgos. “Caribe: la pluma defensora de la Mar.” 2024. (Nancy Morejón-Cuba, Julia Cristina Ortiz Lugo- Puerto Rico, Jamaica Kincaid-Antigua.) Instalación a Yemayá Atabeira. En el baño yacen unas “toallas” con pinturas de paisajes de Playa Sucia, Combate y Boquerón. En el piso hay una configuración de materia orgánica recolectadas en dichas costas recordando las figuras de Atabey-Yemayá. En la otra toalla están pintadas tres escritoras antillanas cuyos libros también forman parte de la Biblioteca de Casa FOR. En su libro “A Small Place” Kincaid advierte sobre el desplazamiento de nuestros Pueblos por personas adineradas que miran con codicia nuestras tierras y cuya avaricia termina explotando nuestros recursos y gentes haciéndonos visitants en nuestres propias islas. Hoy el Proyecto Esencia amenza asi a Cabo Rojo a 11 km. De Playa Sucia, la playa favorita de Filiberto. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/68f94a8b-5f9b-4ba1-adfa-acad43862120/2024_SDamaryBurgos_Caribe.JPG Arte - Afro.Bori.Libertaria S. Damary Burgos. “Caribe: la pluma defensora de la Mar.” 2024. (Nancy Morejón-Cuba, Julia Cristina Ortiz Lugo- Puerto Rico, Jamaica Kincaid-Antigua.) Instalación a Yemayá Atabeira. En el baño yacen unas “toallas” con pinturas de paisajes de Playa Sucia, Combate y Boquerón. En el piso hay una configuración de materia orgánica recolectadas en dichas costas recordando las figuras de Atabey-Yemayá. En la otra toalla están pintadas tres escritoras antillanas cuyos libros también forman parte de la Biblioteca de Casa FOR. En su libro “A Small Place” Kincaid advierte sobre el desplazamiento de nuestros Pueblos por personas adineradas que miran con codicia nuestras tierras y cuya avaricia termina explotando nuestros recursos y gentes haciéndonos visitants en nuestres propias islas. Hoy el Proyecto Esencia amenza asi a Cabo Rojo a 11 km. De Playa Sucia, la playa favorita de Filiberto. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/cbd43fb5-f27c-43d5-b06f-5595b6b6f3e2/SacredGround.YasminHernandezArt.jpg Arte - Afro.Bori.Libertaria Yasmín Hernández. “Solidaridad en suelo Sagrado”, 2024. Acrílico y tinta sobre pellón, 16” x 48”. Esta pieza marca el momento histórico en el cual ex-prisioneros politicos de los Estados Unidos se reunieron con los nuestros en la Casa Museo Filiberto Ojeda Ríos el 23 de septiembre, 2023. De izquierda a derecha: Adolfo Matos Antongiorgi, Edwin Cortes, Masai Ehehosi, Jalil Abdul Muntaqim, Kazi Toure, Ashanti Omowali Alston; Jaan Karl Laaman, Luis Rosa, Jihad Abdulmumit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/cbd43fb5-f27c-43d5-b06f-5595b6b6f3e2/SacredGround.YasminHernandezArt.jpg Arte - Afro.Bori.Libertaria Yasmín Hernández. “Solidaridad en suelo Sagrado”, 2024. Acrílico y tinta sobre pellón, 16” x 48”. Esta pieza marca el momento histórico en el cual ex-prisioneros politicos de los Estados Unidos se reunieron con los nuestros en la Casa Museo Filiberto Ojeda Ríos el 23 de septiembre, 2023. De izquierda a derecha: Adolfo Matos Antongiorgi, Edwin Cortes, Masai Ehehosi, Jalil Abdul Muntaqim, Kazi Toure, Ashanti Omowali Alston; Jaan Karl Laaman, Luis Rosa, Jihad Abdulmumit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/126dc8e2-c534-40ec-96ec-1aa9f8ac820e/2024_PorLaLibre_YasminHernandezArt.AfroBoriLibertaria.jpg Arte - Afro.Bori.Libertaria Yasmín Hernández . “Por la libre”, (25 años en casa) 2024. Acrílico y tinta sobre pellón, 16” x 48”. “Por la libre” conmemora los 25 años en que nuestros ex-prisioneros politicos han estado en casa. Esta imagen une los que fueron excarcelados en el 1999 con Oscar y Carlos Alberto, quienes salieron después. También incluye dos ancestres querides, Dylcia y Elizam. De izquierda a derecha: Ida Luz Rodríguez, Edwin Cortés, Alejandrina Torres, Carlos Alberto Torres, Adolfo Matos Antongiorgi, Oscar López Rivera, Luis Rosa, Ricardo Jiménez, Alicia Rodríguez, Roberto Rodríguez, Carmen Valentín, Dylcia Pagán y Elizam Escobar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/126dc8e2-c534-40ec-96ec-1aa9f8ac820e/2024_PorLaLibre_YasminHernandezArt.AfroBoriLibertaria.jpg Arte - Afro.Bori.Libertaria Yasmín Hernández . “Por la libre”, (25 años en casa) 2024. Acrílico y tinta sobre pellón, 16” x 48”. “Por la libre” conmemora los 25 años en que nuestros ex-prisioneros politicos han estado en casa. Esta imagen une los que fueron excarcelados en el 1999 con Oscar y Carlos Alberto, quienes salieron después. También incluye dos ancestres querides, Dylcia y Elizam. De izquierda a derecha: Ida Luz Rodríguez, Edwin Cortés, Alejandrina Torres, Carlos Alberto Torres, Adolfo Matos Antongiorgi, Oscar López Rivera, Luis Rosa, Ricardo Jiménez, Alicia Rodríguez, Roberto Rodríguez, Carmen Valentín, Dylcia Pagán y Elizam Escobar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/a710ceb3-1416-4483-afd9-3959392a87e6/OposicionPatriotica_FOR_YasminHernandezArt2024.jpg Arte - Afro.Bori.Libertaria “La Oposición Patriótica” 2024. (Palabras/ caligrafía de Filiberto Ojeda Ríos). Acrílico sobre pellón, 66” x 50”. “Es en gran medida una situación anormal. Y es anormal en primer lugar, por la propia naturaleza tanto del acusador, como el acusado. El acusador, el F.B.I., el gobierno de los Estados Unidos, el poder que submerge a este nuestro pueblo, a los rigores de un colonialismo brutal, y su agencia que históricamente ha tenido la responsabilidad de eliminar la oposición patriótica.” -FOR Esta pieza representa la caligrafía de Filiberto Ojeda Ríos tal como parece en unas notas que escribió durante el proceso de su juicio. Para crear la replica de su caligrafía, fue proyectada junto a imágenes de balazaos que aparecen en la pared posterior del pasillo. Por esa razón la pieza fue diseñada para ser expuesta justo al lado del pasillo, ofreciendo un espacio en donde reflexionar y no cambiar ese espacio original que lleva una carga energética muy pesada. El proposito de proyectar el imagen era para asegurar su exactitud. Sí se tomo licencia artistica en pintarlos en los colores de las luciérnagas, rojo, negro y verde, transformándolos con el mensaje de Filiberto. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/a710ceb3-1416-4483-afd9-3959392a87e6/OposicionPatriotica_FOR_YasminHernandezArt2024.jpg Arte - Afro.Bori.Libertaria “La Oposición Patriótica” 2024. (Palabras/ caligrafía de Filiberto Ojeda Ríos). Acrílico sobre pellón, 66” x 50”. “Es en gran medida una situación anormal. Y es anormal en primer lugar, por la propia naturaleza tanto del acusador, como el acusado. El acusador, el F.B.I., el gobierno de los Estados Unidos, el poder que submerge a este nuestro pueblo, a los rigores de un colonialismo brutal, y su agencia que históricamente ha tenido la responsabilidad de eliminar la oposición patriótica.” -FOR Esta pieza representa la caligrafía de Filiberto Ojeda Ríos tal como parece en unas notas que escribió durante el proceso de su juicio. Para crear la replica de su caligrafía, fue proyectada junto a imágenes de balazaos que aparecen en la pared posterior del pasillo. Por esa razón la pieza fue diseñada para ser expuesta justo al lado del pasillo, ofreciendo un espacio en donde reflexionar y no cambiar ese espacio original que lleva una carga energética muy pesada. El proposito de proyectar el imagen era para asegurar su exactitud. Sí se tomo licencia artistica en pintarlos en los colores de las luciérnagas, rojo, negro y verde, transformándolos con el mensaje de Filiberto. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/9004c04f-2f40-4c22-bb28-42b77d33d57f/Pasillocrop.CasaMfor.jpg Arte - Afro.Bori.Libertaria “La Oposición Patriótica” 2024. (Palabras/ caligrafía de Filiberto Ojeda Ríos). Acrílico sobre pellón, 66” x 50”. Esta pieza representa la caligrafía de Filiberto Ojeda Ríos tal como parece en unas notas que escribió durante el proceso de su juicio. Para crear la replica de su caligrafía, fue proyectada junto a imágenes de balazaos que aparecen en la pared posterior del pasillo. Por esa razón la pieza fue diseñada para ser expuesta justo al lado del pasillo, ofreciendo un espacio en donde reflexionar y no cambiar ese espacio original que lleva una carga energética muy pesada. El proposito de proyectar el imagen era para asegurar su exactitud. Sí se tomo licencia artistica en pintarlos en los colores de las luciérnagas, rojo, negro y verde, transformándolos con el mensaje de Filiberto. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/9004c04f-2f40-4c22-bb28-42b77d33d57f/Pasillocrop.CasaMfor.jpg Arte - Afro.Bori.Libertaria “La Oposición Patriótica” 2024. (Palabras/ caligrafía de Filiberto Ojeda Ríos). Acrílico sobre pellón, 66” x 50”. Esta pieza representa la caligrafía de Filiberto Ojeda Ríos tal como parece en unas notas que escribió durante el proceso de su juicio. Para crear la replica de su caligrafía, fue proyectada junto a imágenes de balazaos que aparecen en la pared posterior del pasillo. Por esa razón la pieza fue diseñada para ser expuesta justo al lado del pasillo, ofreciendo un espacio en donde reflexionar y no cambiar ese espacio original que lleva una carga energética muy pesada. El proposito de proyectar el imagen era para asegurar su exactitud. Sí se tomo licencia artistica en pintarlos en los colores de las luciérnagas, rojo, negro y verde, transformándolos con el mensaje de Filiberto. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/1d33477b-84d6-4a1b-9776-37f05515183e/YasminHernandez.AfroBoriLibertaria.Garvey.Schomburg.lr.jpg Arte - Afro.Bori.Libertaria Yasmín Hernández, “AfroAntillas” 2024 Acrylic on polytab cloth, 24” x 30 ¼” Retrato del jamaiquino Marcus Garvey, Nacionalista del movimiento Pan Africanista. Fue Marcus Garvey quien seleccionó los colores rojo, negro y verde a representar este movimiento, cuyos colores llegaron a decorar varias banderas de republicas liberadas en el continente de Africa. Aparece junto a Arturo Schomburg, historiador, escritor, coleccionista, activisa y padre de la Historia de la Raza Negra, (1874-1938). Nacido en Puerto Rico, se convirtió en una figura del Harlem Renaissance. Su amplia colleccion se alberga el la institucion conocida por todo el mundo como el Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture en Nueva York. Se incluyen las siluetas de Africa, Jamaica, Puerto Rico y Santa Cruz (donde nació la madre de Schomburg). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/1d33477b-84d6-4a1b-9776-37f05515183e/YasminHernandez.AfroBoriLibertaria.Garvey.Schomburg.lr.jpg Arte - Afro.Bori.Libertaria Yasmín Hernández, “AfroAntillas” 2024 Acrylic on polytab cloth, 24” x 30 ¼” Retrato del jamaiquino Marcus Garvey, Nacionalista del movimiento Pan Africanista. Fue Marcus Garvey quien seleccionó los colores rojo, negro y verde a representar este movimiento, cuyos colores llegaron a decorar varias banderas de republicas liberadas en el continente de Africa. Aparece junto a Arturo Schomburg, historiador, escritor, coleccionista, activisa y padre de la Historia de la Raza Negra, (1874-1938). Nacido en Puerto Rico, se convirtió en una figura del Harlem Renaissance. Su amplia colleccion se alberga el la institucion conocida por todo el mundo como el Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture en Nueva York. Se incluyen las siluetas de Africa, Jamaica, Puerto Rico y Santa Cruz (donde nació la madre de Schomburg). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/fdc99004-40f3-4bbc-9495-6c1828a190ec/DiceAFrica_DomingaDeLaCruz_YasminHernandezArt2024.jpg Arte - Afro.Bori.Libertaria Yasmín Hernández “Dice África...”, 2024. (Dominga de la Cruz Becerril). Acrílico y tinta sobre pellón. 36” x 30. “Porque como dice Africa, ¡la lucha continua!” Retrato de Dominga de la Cruz Becerril (Ponce, 1909-1981) Nacionalista que rescató la bandera Boricua cuando cayó al suelo durante la Masacre de Ponce en el 1937. También es conocida por haberle dado a Pedro Albizu Campos el apodo “El Maestro.” Una revolucionaria de alta valentía, dignidad e integridad, vivió en el exilio en México y Cuba donde fue muy respetada por su compromiso y sus aportaciones a la lucha libertaria de Puerto Rico. También le dieron una calurosa bienvenida en Moscó donde además de hablar sobre su lucha, recibió atención medica y descanso necesario. Esta pieza es inspirada por el libro Dominga Rescata la Bandera por Margaret Randall y Mariana McDonald. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/fdc99004-40f3-4bbc-9495-6c1828a190ec/DiceAFrica_DomingaDeLaCruz_YasminHernandezArt2024.jpg Arte - Afro.Bori.Libertaria Yasmín Hernández “Dice África...”, 2024. (Dominga de la Cruz Becerril). Acrílico y tinta sobre pellón. 36” x 30. “Porque como dice Africa, ¡la lucha continua!” Retrato de Dominga de la Cruz Becerril (Ponce, 1909-1981) Nacionalista que rescató la bandera Boricua cuando cayó al suelo durante la Masacre de Ponce en el 1937. También es conocida por haberle dado a Pedro Albizu Campos el apodo “El Maestro.” Una revolucionaria de alta valentía, dignidad e integridad, vivió en el exilio en México y Cuba donde fue muy respetada por su compromiso y sus aportaciones a la lucha libertaria de Puerto Rico. También le dieron una calurosa bienvenida en Moscó donde además de hablar sobre su lucha, recibió atención medica y descanso necesario. Esta pieza es inspirada por el libro Dominga Rescata la Bandera por Margaret Randall y Mariana McDonald. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/6b74ae02-0df4-4855-969a-571a267e26b2/FireNextTime_PiriThomas_JamesBaldwin_YasminHernandezArt2024.jpg Arte - Afro.Bori.Libertaria Yasmín Hernández “The Fire Next Time” 2024. (Piri Thomas and James Baldwin). Acrílico sobre pellón, 30” x 36”. “...y mirad el arco iris que eres tú.” -Piri Thomas del poema “Softly Puerto Rican.” “Dios le dió a Noé la señal del arco iris. No más agua, la próxima vez el fuego.” Inspirado en un verso de la biblia e incluido al principio del ensayo, “My Dungeon Shook” en el libro “The Fire Next Time” por James Baldwin. Retratos de Piri Thomas (arriba)- poeta, escritor, activista AfroBoricua y Cubano nacido en East Harlem 1928-2011; y James Balwin (abajo)- escritor, dramaturgo, activista AfroAmericano nacido en Harlem 1924-1987. Inspirado en el trabajo de ambos escritores dirigido a jovenes negros, promoviendo una ética de amor en nuestras comunidades, esta pieza utiliza las estéticas de las luciérnagas cuyos colores son los mismos nombrados por Marcus Garvey para representar a la lucha libertaria Negra mundial. Con esta paleta afirmo la posición de Puerto Rico dentro de la Diáspora Africana. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/6b74ae02-0df4-4855-969a-571a267e26b2/FireNextTime_PiriThomas_JamesBaldwin_YasminHernandezArt2024.jpg Arte - Afro.Bori.Libertaria Yasmín Hernández “The Fire Next Time” 2024. (Piri Thomas and James Baldwin). Acrílico sobre pellón, 30” x 36”. “...y mirad el arco iris que eres tú.” -Piri Thomas del poema “Softly Puerto Rican.” “Dios le dió a Noé la señal del arco iris. No más agua, la próxima vez el fuego.” Inspirado en un verso de la biblia e incluido al principio del ensayo, “My Dungeon Shook” en el libro “The Fire Next Time” por James Baldwin. Retratos de Piri Thomas (arriba)- poeta, escritor, activista AfroBoricua y Cubano nacido en East Harlem 1928-2011; y James Balwin (abajo)- escritor, dramaturgo, activista AfroAmericano nacido en Harlem 1924-1987. Inspirado en el trabajo de ambos escritores dirigido a jovenes negros, promoviendo una ética de amor en nuestras comunidades, esta pieza utiliza las estéticas de las luciérnagas cuyos colores son los mismos nombrados por Marcus Garvey para representar a la lucha libertaria Negra mundial. Con esta paleta afirmo la posición de Puerto Rico dentro de la Diáspora Africana. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/f1032043-70ae-4400-ad79-5af94802d6de/FireNextTime.BaldwinDetail.YasminHernandezArt2024.jpg Arte - Afro.Bori.Libertaria Detalle de James Baldwin. Yasmín Hernández “The Fire Next Time” 2024. (Piri Thomas and James Baldwin). Acrílico sobre pellón, 30” x 36”. “Dios le dió a Noé la señal del arco iris. No más agua, la próxima vez el fuego.” Inspirado en un verso de la biblia e incluido al principio del ensayo, “My Dungeon Shook” en el libro “The Fire Next Time” por James Baldwin. Retratos de Piri Thomas (arriba)- poeta, escritor, activista AfroBoricua y Cubano nacido en East Harlem 1928-2011; y James Balwin (abajo)- escritor, dramaturgo, activista AfroAmericano nacido en Harlem 1924-1987. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67034a48afe9a8340eea790a/f1032043-70ae-4400-ad79-5af94802d6de/FireNextTime.BaldwinDetail.YasminHernandezArt2024.jpg Arte - Afro.Bori.Libertaria Detalle de James Baldwin. Yasmín Hernández “The Fire Next Time” 2024. (Piri Thomas and James Baldwin). Acrílico sobre pellón, 30” x 36”. “Dios le dió a Noé la señal del arco iris. No más agua, la próxima vez el fuego.” Inspirado en un verso de la biblia e incluido al principio del ensayo, “My Dungeon Shook” en el libro “The Fire Next Time” por James Baldwin. Retratos de Piri Thomas (arriba)- poeta, escritor, activista AfroBoricua y Cubano nacido en East Harlem 1928-2011; y James Balwin (abajo)- escritor, dramaturgo, activista AfroAmericano nacido en Harlem 1924-1987.