What is the connection between the Puerto Rican and the American art scenes?
I don’t attach much importance to the particular connection between both scenes because I believe that, nowadays, the spokesperson is the World, not necessarily the United States, Europe or Latin America. We live in a global society with immediate access to communications in which artists with similar themes, aesthetics or techniques can interact from anywhere in the world. Obviously, every artist has a cultural heritage and cannot escape from it, but communications grant this opportunity and Puerto Rican artists are as interested in a dialogue with the U.S. as with Europe or Latin America. As I said, the spokesperson is now the world.
