Memory · Place · Return / August 2026

How I Remember This Place

An autobiographical return to Levittown and Toa Baja, where present-day photographs coexist with memories of childhood. Becoming, Rupture, and Absence trace the relationship between the places that remain and what happened there.

Act I — Becoming

07 photographs

I return to the schools, houses, and small details of childhood. These are photographs of the present, but I look at them through the person I was becoming here.

School buildings behind a fence beside a sunlit street — 01How I Remember This Place

School corridor seen through a bright blue frame — 02How I Remember This Place

A pink house on a quiet street — 03How I Remember This Place

A small pink mailbox shaped like a house — 04How I Remember This Place

An outdoor staircase framed by dark foreground edges — 05How I Remember This Place

A weathered basketball hoop against blue sky — 06How I Remember This Place

Blue stairs and yellow railings on a school building — 07How I Remember This Place

Act II — Rupture

07 photographs

The same geography holds change as well as familiarity. In this act, the present-day image and the memory of a place begin to pull in different directions.

Museo de Toa Baja beside an empty paved area — 08How I Remember This Place

Warm light on a river bordered by trees — 09How I Remember This Place

Twisting roots surrounding a stone memorial — 10How I Remember This Place

A colorful mural on a wall beside a paved court — 11How I Remember This Place

A statue viewed from behind against the sky — 12How I Remember This Place

An empty running track framed by trees — 13How I Remember This Place

Empty stadium stands and a red running track — 14How I Remember This Place

Act III — Absence

06 photographs

What remains in a photograph is not everything a place once held. The final act looks at the distance between what I can still see and what I carry in memory.

A road intersection with traffic lights and signs — 15How I Remember This Place

A blue school building beyond long grass — 16How I Remember This Place

A sunlit road intersection and palm trees — 17How I Remember This Place

A white corner house with a balcony and parked cars — 18How I Remember This Place

A blue house with a curved doorway and parked car — 19How I Remember This Place

Rubble and an abandoned interior seen through a rusted decorative grille — 20How I Remember This Place

Continue looking

The Things That Taught Me to See