In this painting, the royal palm —Cuba's national symbol— appears stripped of solemnity and turned into an ironic figure. What once represented dignity and resistance now emerges as a circus character, ridiculed in its own image.
"The Jester Palm" questions the manipulation of the sacred and exposes how collective pride can be degraded into mockery, emptying a nation's identity of meaning. It does not reject history but confronts it, revealing how the dictatorship toys with the symbols of the homeland.
The work is part of the Royal Palms series, where the artist explores identity, memory, and representation through humor and absurdity as tools to lay bare Cuban reality.
Size: 20" x 30" (approximately 51 cm x 76 cm).
Print Type: High-quality Giclée print on archival, 100% cotton paper with long-lasting pigment inks for a faithful and durable reproduction.
Presentation: Rolled in a protective tube for secure shipping.