As an artist who has always lived and worked in Loíza, a coastal municipality in Puerto Rico founded by descendants of slaves brought through the transatlantic slave trade, Lind-Ramos incorporates found and gifted everyday objects into his art to offer pathways of remembrance for traditional practices and knowledge that provide sustenance.

Lind-Ramos' milieu provides a rich context to gather objects that speak beyond language to the realities of Black Puerto Ricans or afrodescendentes, who have been historically marginalised...