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Cupcake
Cupcake made out of plastic utensils and bottle caps.
Slice of Pie
Pie made out of plastic bottle caps and excess food packaging.
Coffee and Doughnut
Coffee and doughnut made out of plastic utensils, plastic lids and excess food packaging. Sculpture by Lisa Bagwell.
Artist Talk
“Assemblage artist” Lisa Bagwell gives an artist talk at her October 15, 2016 solo art exhibit at Ruthie’s Bagel Dish. During the artist talk, Lisa spoke about her process of collecting trash, almost entirely from cleanups and donations from friends…
Garbage Transformed Into Art
NJ Congressman Frank Pallone deciding which bottle cap snake to purchase from artist Lisa Bagwell.
Artist Lisa Bagwell & Congressman Frank Pallone
Artist Lisa Bagwell welcomed Congressman Frank Pallone to her first solo exhibit.
Talking “Garbage Art”
Raíces Director Francisco G. Gómez welcomes exhibit attendee Amanda Hungerford and dialogues about plastic reduction, art, sustainability and ecology.
Artist Talk at Lisa Bagwell’s EcoArt Exhibit
Lisa Bagwell dialoguing with attendees of her EcoArt Exhibit during the artist talk section of the event. Visitors were impressed by the bridging of visual arts and ecology and expressed wonder at the amount of plastic and refuse one person could…
Sharing Knowledge, Learning Culture
Raíces Director Francisco G. Gómez spends some hands-on planting time with 2017 High School Intern Eli Goldstein. Eli spent a semester studying herbalism and culture with Raíces BOD Chair and herbalist Angela Lugo. Eli came to Raíces through the…
Blue Tarp Roofs
Four months after the storm, thousands of blue roofs were seen in all parts of the island. It was the first sight we saw when descending into Luis Muñoz Marin International Airport, and it was a common sight for the Raíces crew to come across…
Clearing Brush
Immediately after the storm residents formed brigades to clear the road of debris, including fallen trees, vegetation and landslides. Much of this was piled along the sides of the roads. Upon arriving in Puerto Rico four months after the storm, most…
Destroyed by Maria
Gas station in Loíza Aldea that was destroyed by Hurricane Maria and has been closed since.
Electric Lines Post-Maria
Bent, broken and leaning electric poles were a common sight in every part of the island, even four months after the storm. This went along with electric lines laying across roads and in piles along roadsides, and lines hanging just inches above the…
Abandoned House
Abandoned and completely destroyed houses were seed in every part of the island. Even as attempts to clean up and pile debris were made, there was still no trash collection in the interior four months after the storm, and debris piles remained on the…
A Grid Destroyed
The powerful winds of Hurricane Maria brought down tens of thousands of electric poles, snapping and bending some completely in half.
La Coca - Closed
The road into El Yunque National Forest was open in January 2018, but only up until the parking lot directly below La Coca waterfall. The road was too dangerous to travel past this point, with landslides, debris and collapsed roads still a challenge.
Casa Pueblo de Adjuntas
Casa Pueblo de Adjuntas is an organization located in the Central Highlands of Puerto Rico, in a small municipality called Adjuntas. Casa Pueblo is a community-based, non-governmental organization that promotes, through voluntary participation of…
Mariposario
One of the projects that stood out the most upon visiting Casa Pueblo was their mariposario, or butterfly house. The mariposario was home to dozens of native monarchs, endemic to the island of Puerto Rico. This is a sub-species of monarch that does…
Transformando la crisis
Sign hanging in Casa Pueblo that reads “Casa Pueblo - Transformando la crisis con alternativa solar energía.” or “Casa Pueblo - Transforming the crisis with alternative, solar energy.”
Tinti Deyá
Casa Pueblo co-founder Tinti Deyá attending to visitors in the artisan shop at Casa Pueblo.
Jíbaro
Mural of a jíbaro, or farmer from the mountains on the ruins of building.
Carretera Cerrado
In the week Raíces crew members spent on the island, only three closed roads were encountered. One of them was this major road for western mountain towns, PR-111, where a sinkhole opened in a section of the road going through San Sebastian.
Don Luis and Doña Carmen Soto - Finca Mi Casa
Don Luis Soto and his wife Doña Carmen live on their farm Finca Mi Casa, in the coastal area of Camuy, Puerto Rico. Don Luis maintains one of the only USDA certified organic farms on the island of Puerto Rico. He is a retired agronomist and in his…
Greenhouse Repairs for Finca Mi Casa
While visiting Finca Mi Casa, Raíces crew members assessed the remaining damage and needs on the farm and decided to fund the repair of the greenhouse, which is essential to the growing and seed saving operations at Finca Mi Casa.
Kari
The first time the Raíces crew met Jariksa Valle Feliciano, or Kari, was in 2012 at Plenitud PR, where she was living and working on the Plenitud permaculture farm and eco-education center. During the storm, Kari was living back in her hometown of…