Mixed Media on vinyl fabric and PVC 29 1/2" x 20" 2023 "Hacienda Aurora" is a tribute to the work of the same title, created by Francisco Oller in 1898. It is a contemporary reinterpretation, both technically and conceptually, which presents a small detail of Oller's composition, seen through plantain leaves. It is a historical study, which positions the viewer in a closeup of the sugar plantation located in Carolina, which at the time served as a refuge for the artist during the U.S. invasion and the bombing of San Juan in 1898. Oller shows the plant, which has been inoperative for more than a decade, documenting a process of transition that Puerto Rico suffered when it lost the industry that represented its greatest economic income. In this case, the reinterpretation focuses on the same ruins of the abandoned “hacienda”, but brought to the present day. Although the remains of “Hacienda Aurora”, which became “Central Victoria”, were demolished in 2011, the work portrays how nature, represented with the plantain bushes in the foreground, imposes itself and takes over the wasteland. It presents, on the one hand, the plantain tree as a symbol of the Puerto Rican people, witnesses of historical events, and, on the other hand, the hope for a new rebirth of agriculture in Puerto Rico. The sugar cane industry is no longer the island's economic engine, but there are other agricultural alternatives that can replace it.