Traumatic Iterations is a site-specific installation that memorializes inherited trauma and explores how Puerto Rican women experience violence and abandonment following Hurricane María. At its center is a fragile wall of cinderblocks cast in votive wax, each containing everyday objects such as work boots, dried flowers, kitchen utensils, food packaging, and padlocks. These items reference both domestic labor and delayed aid shipments on the island. The structure is framed by chain-link fencing and an apartment door, suggesting a space that is both protective and confining.

Above, two color videos layer hurricane imagery with the piercing sound of an LRAD and the chorus of coquí frogs. Text appears as a litany: Have you seen violence? / I have seen violence.

Drawing on individual experience and collective mourning, the installation highlights domestic spaces as areas of vulnerability and exposure, rather than safety.