Daniel Lind Ramos
Daniel Lind Ramos is a painter and assemblage sculptor born in Loíza, Puerto Rico. He uses found materials to create assemblages that connect Puerto Rico’s history to present-day life, traditions and rituals. He pays tribute to Afro-descendant communities through presenting the materials and practices that represent them, and evaluating their contribution to history. He also likes to employ a mix of organic and industrial, ancient and anodyne, and the tension/contrast that creates. He often draws on his Afro-Caribbean heritage, and the history of Loíza (traces its origin to the settlement of cimarrones, or free Black individuals and enslaved people who escaped). To him, “paying tribute to traditional Afro-descendant communities through the presentation of the materials and practices that represent them is to evaluate their contribution to history and, at the same time, suggest a fundamental part of the strategies of an expressive program that tries to create, from the particular and specific, an aesthetic which reflects from the polysomic of its meanings humanity as a whole.”