Boricua en la Luna

Part of this piece was used for the 2002 Muevete! Youth Conference flyer. Muevete! provides Puerto Rican, Latino and other urban youth with education, leadership and arts workshops each year with its annual conference. The theme "Boricua on the Moon" is borrowed from Juan Antonio Corretjer's poem, Boricua en La Luna, in which he states that he would be Puerto Rican even if he had been born on the moon. In the image I include an excerpt from Corretjer's poem in the background of a lunar scape. Behind the moon and earth is a portrait of the young Pedro Albizu Campos since his image is most associated with Puerto Rican nationalism and pride.