Year: 2025

Materials: Low-fire Ceramics, Glaze

This ceramic sculpture honors the Puerto Rican women who were subjected to non-consensual birth control trials in the 1950s, used as test subjects without full knowledge or consent. Sangre Verde gives form to these silenced histories, recognizing their pain, strength, and resilience.

Layered faces emerge and recede from the surface, representing collective memory and the echoes of lives interrupted. The glaze’s deep blues and cratered textures evoke underwater landscapes and geological time—symbols of buried stories surfacing. The vessel form speaks to containment and care, referencing both the body and the womb.

As a Puerto Rican artist, my practice centers on ancestral memory and cultural resistance. Clay, with its ability to hold touch and history, allows me to engage with the weight of inherited trauma while reclaiming material and narrative agency. This piece is a gesture of remembrance for those who were unknown, unsung, and must never be forgotten.