Announcing My Upcoming Exhibition I’m thrilled to announce that my first exhibition of 2025, Spandrel Spaces: The Art of In-between, will open this May at the Museo de Arte e Historia Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos in Patillas, Puerto Rico. This exhibition brings together over 30 of my recent paintings—created throughout 2024 and into 2025—all of […]
I have always been an intrepid explorer of the natural world. My travels have taken me across much of Europe, India, Nepal, East and North Africa, and North America. My painting and digital work have documented my travels and life. I was born in the 1960s to Zoroastrian parents in Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa, and […]
Ah, the perennial question that has haunted me since I could remember: “Where are you from?” It’s a seemingly innocuous inquiry, innocently tossed into conversations like a gentle grenade, waiting to explode into a hot mess of confusion and awkwardness, which I always experienced as a child. Picture this: Nairobi, Kenya, a bustling city of vibrant […]
In an era marked by global challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and habitat degradation, the conservation of endangered endemic plants has become a pressing concern. Eye on the Rainforest, an organization in Puerto Rico, has joined forces with Botanical Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) to address this issue. Their collaborative efforts are focused on […]
‘Everything Everywhere All Over All At Once’. Color pencil on paper Drawing has been more than just a hobby for as long as I can remember; it has been an integral aspect of my identity, a communication between my inner world and the world around me. While other people find consolation in music, literature, or […]
Thorns & Trails As a child, I was cradled in the emerald embrace of my aunt’s garden in Nairobi, Kenya. The ‘shamba’ was a playground of foliage, dazzling me with many plants in all sizes of recycled containers, pots, barrels, and cans. The air was a perfumed melody of floral scents, underscored by the sound […]
Part 1: Einstein’s paper on special relativity, “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies,” was published in 1905, and it included the theory that time IS NOT a constant flowing stream but a kind of web that can expand and contract relative to the moment. In theory, we all move in our own time. But how […]
As I immerse myself in the wilderness of the Puertorican subtropical wet forest, I am acutely aware of the multifaceted nature of my role. Today, as I battled with levels of bureaucracy of Puertorican agencies, yearning to walk away from my desk and into the nursery, I engaged in a reflective exploration, endeavoring to define […]
The vibrant dawn of another day unfurls in the heart of the Puerto Rican rainforest, my adopted home for the past 23 years. My life is like a river coursing through this forest, through dense groves of cultural complexity, and cascades of ecological nuance; a dance on the colorful palette of existence within this subtropical […]
News from our rainforest mountain biome in southeast Puerto Rico. As an inhabitant of Puerto Rico’s lush rainforest for the last twenty-two years, I am witnessing a devastating phenomenon firsthand – the severe decline of insect populations in our forest. I have not done a scientific study on this, but I live here. I feel […]
A Tribute to Dr. Frank H. Wadsworth: His Vision Continues to Inspire When I first arrived in Puerto Rico in 1999 and began living in the mountain forests of a project known as Las Casas de la Selva, launched in the early 1980s by the Institute of Ecotechnics (IE), I had no notion of what […]
In September of 2022, Hurricane Fiona crashed onto the shores of southern Puerto Rico, unleashing a deluge of water that left the land ravaged and transformed. The rains were a relentless assault, causing giant landslides, and ripping a vital bridge from its banks, severing our access to the forest. The river’s blood-red boundaries stretched out […]
Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico as a Category 4 storm on the morning of September 20, 2017, bringing winds of about 160 mph to an island that had narrowly escaped the worst of Hurricane Irma’s destruction just weeks earlier. Our project, Tropic Ventures Sustainable Forestry and Rainforest Enrichment Project, established 35 years ago […]
On 21st September, we joined forces with neighbors from Mira Flores, Patillas, and we worked our way down the 184, clearing the road of tree debris, electric lines, and flagging dangerous low hanging lines.
Living in the middle of vast oceans of the biosphere.
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