Alisa Henriquez: Beneath the Palms draws on family genealogy and oral histories to reimagine inherited mythologies set within Jamaica's landscape. Female figures appear not as portraits but as mutable presences — asserting and dissolving into abstracted spatial fields — while recurring palm fronds function as geographical marker, nurturing form, and rhythmic visual beat that conceals as much as it reveals. Through layered color, overlapping contours, and ruptured boundaries, Henriquez frames identity as an ongoing living abstraction: provisional, unstable, and unresolved.
