Mixed Media on vinyl fabric and PVC 45 1/4” x 52 1/2” 2024 “Cosechadora de caña”, a tribute to the work “Cortador de caña” by Rafael Tufiño (1951), presents a new process for harvesting sugar cane. In the time of the sugar estates, the cane cutters were responsible for felling and collecting the canes in long working days during the harvest period. Nowadays, alternative methods have been chosen, thanks to the implementation of precision agriculture and new machinery, to solve the problem of labor shortage and to boost productivity. While Tufiño's print exalts the figure of a 19th century Puerto Rican cane cutter, with a machete in hand, the reinterpretation introduces the sugarcane harvester machine. The prominence of the "jíbaro" that Tufiño presents in the foreground contrasts with the machine found in the background of “Cosechadora de caña,” giving emphasis to the cane, as a symbol of that lost figure of the worker, but rescuing and highlighting the crop, which, at its best, dominated the Puerto Rican economy. The use of these new methods and technologies may be the key to a new resurgence of the sugar industry in Puerto Rico.