I thoroughly enjoy my experience. It was a beautiful museum and show. The curators did a thoughtful job of bringing together the history and illustrating the connection that Latin and Black people have with the game. It's something that we have always played, but never really game a special showing for. This idea was very unique. The point was to show the community. They really took the viewers on a local journey.
Kenny Rivero's Juguetes
I will admit that this work didn't really resonate with me at first. This may have a lot to do with the fact that before I could actually look at it my mom stormed off saying "I hate this pile of trash". Before I ran off to the next work I wanted to look at it for a bit longer. The longer I looked the more mysteries I uncovered. It was pretty great actually. I even showed it to my mom and told her to look a little closer. That is when we both felt attached to it. It was a collection of the type environment that we were fond of in the Bahamas. Dominoes is a huge and important game in the islands and black culture. The beer bottles. dominoes, baseball and whatever else was in that pile. It was almost sad, to see the last bit of these moments being framed. This was all that was left. It was nostalgic.
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