Diasporican Blueprint

 The Diasporican Blueprint 

    The Diasporican Blueprint, book and single pieces, pursuit the conspiracy idea and the thought that the displacement of Puerto Rican from the Island to the United States has been planed as to reach amongst other things low wage well trained and educated workforce. Under this circumstances Puerto Rican has create in each city spaces in which they can preserve their heritage while fight assimilation. Amongst the way the diaspora member recognized themselves under the idea to be Puerto Rican is in the way they used their most proudly sign. The Flag. 

When I arrived to Chicago embraced by the Puerto Ricans at Humboldt Park and Hermosa neighborhood I was amazed on how proudly second, third, and fourth Puerto Rican generation members proudly wore the flag as freely as they can, something that at motherland doesn't happen, and sometimes is not well seeing. Maybe because the mid twenty century flag show prohibition at the Island, or because we as Puerto Rican.

However, the process of ethnic identification and difference awareness could bring to the table a method of control and segregation used by authorities and leaders. Then proudly objects becomes a way to advertise the difference, racism and misfortune under a exchange of meanings and significance of the signifier, i.e. the flag. 

Cyanotype as a medium is used as an architectural metaphor of a well design planed of population displacement. The head works as a support of the heritage commodity advertised by the dominant forces of populism and ideology. 

This work belongs to the creative research that I started on the series "Showcase".