These photographs were made in the final weeks before the United States and Cuba announced the restoration of diplomatic relations after more than fifty years of political and economic separation. At that time, the country existed within conditions shaped by prolonged isolation, where the built environment and daily life evolved largely outside rapid cycles of global development.
Color functions here as both description and evidence. Sun-faded paint, improvised repairs, and layered surfaces reflect decades of continuity under constraint. The palette is not constructed; it emerges from necessity, climate, and time.
Anchored in 2014 and revisited now, this series holds a moment often understood as a threshold. The color present in these streets is not symbolic of transformation, but of endurance—a visual record of continuity just before change was widely anticipated.
