{"id":5894,"date":"2020-12-07T08:35:05","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T08:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/floridareview.cah.ucf.edu\/?post_type=article&amp;p=5894"},"modified":"2020-12-07T08:35:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T08:35:05","slug":"under-the-shade-of-a-paradise","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/article\/under-the-shade-of-a-paradise\/","title":{"rendered":"Under the Shade of a Paradise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-5894 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/11\/TFR-1-lionel_cruet_duskdaybreak_2.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/11\/TFR-1-lionel_cruet_duskdaybreak_2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Lionel Cruet, Dusk Daybreak 2.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-5898\" aria-label=\"Lionel Cruet, Dusk Daybreak 2.\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-5898'>\n\t\t\t\tLionel Cruet, Dusk\/Daybreak 2, 2020. Archival pigment print on photographic paper, 30 x 20 in 76.2 x 50.8 cm each, images by Christian Nguyen\/Yi-Gallery \u00a9 Lionel Cruet 2020.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/11\/lionel_cruet_Paradis-prints_2.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/11\/lionel_cruet_Paradis-prints_2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Lionel Cruet, Paradis 2.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-5911\" aria-label=\"Lionel Cruet, Paradis 2.\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-5911'>\n\t\t\t\tLionel Cruet, Paradis 1, 2018. digital photo collages 20 x 30 in \u00a9 Lionel Cruet 2018.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/11\/TFR-3-lionel_cruet_duskdaybreak_3.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/11\/TFR-3-lionel_cruet_duskdaybreak_3-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Lionel Cruet, Dusk Daybreak 3.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-5900\" aria-label=\"Lionel Cruet, Dusk Daybreak 3.\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-5900'>\n\t\t\t\tLionel Cruet, Dusk\/Daybreak 3, 2020. Archival pigment print on photographic paper, 30 x 20 in 76.2 x 50.8 cm each, images by Christian Nguyen\/Yi-Gallery \u00a9 Lionel Cruet 2020.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/11\/TFR-4-lionel_cruet_Paradis-prints_3.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/11\/TFR-4-lionel_cruet_Paradis-prints_3-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Lionel Cruet, Paradis 3.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-5901\" aria-label=\"Lionel Cruet, Paradis 3.\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-5901'>\n\t\t\t\tLionel Cruet, Paradis 2, 2018. digital photo collages 20 x 30 in \u00a9 Lionel Cruet 2018.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/11\/TFR-5-lionel_cruet_duskdaybreak_4.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2020\/11\/TFR-5-lionel_cruet_duskdaybreak_4-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Lionel Cruet, Dusk Daybreak 4.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-5903\" aria-label=\"Lionel Cruet, Dusk Daybreak 4.\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-5903'>\n\t\t\t\tLionel Cruet, Dusk\/Daybreak 4, 2020. Archival pigment print on photographic paper, 30 x 20 in 76.2 x 50.8 cm each, images by Christian Nguyen\/Yi-Gallery \u00a9 Lionel Cruet 2020.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My artworks and projects focus on ecological subjects, expanding the uses of technologies and capturing environments that escape our sight. These images are samples of two bodies of works. One of titled Paradis, 2018-2019, and the most recent one Dusk\/Daybreak, 2020. The images depicted in Paradis make us\u2014the viewers\u2014reconsider ideas of &#8220;paradise&#8221; with the use of images derived from tropical vegetation that intersect and overlap. Each print is carefully crafted through an experimental digital printing process. In Dusk\/Daybreak, there&#8217;s an exploration of the landscape through a nontraditional photographic medium. Each print is made through a layering digital printing process. The images make account for the daylight transitions that allow for the visible and the invisible, uncovering mysteries\u00a0along the Caribbean coast.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I create large-scale audio and visual installations, experimental digital prints, sound arrangements in space, and videos to recreate spaces, memories, and experiences using imagery of natural spaces as a metaphor to understand the complex and interconnected realities we all live. The sources that generate the artworks are mostly research-based in a digital form or archival material that serve to create the installations themselves. Images of obscure natural spaces and elements that define our intimate relationship to spaces\u2014storage containers, sounds, voices, and songs of proclamations in the void\u2014become the aesthetics of the work. Through my artworks and practice I am constantly confronting geopolitical issues, ecology, technology, the act of speculation about the relations that we create to spaces and natural environments. I am always underlining a conceptual framework that comes from my experiences as a Caribbean colonial and post-colonial being as it is in dialogue with the rest of the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The vegetation serves as an aesthetic decision but also as a veil . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5902,"template":"","categories":[9,187],"tags":[1726,1727,1728,1729,805,1730],"class_list":["post-5894","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aquifer","category-visual-art","tag-caribbean","tag-economics-and-geopolitics-of-the-caribbean","tag-idea-of-paradise","tag-lionel-cruet","tag-puerto-rico","tag-tropical-foliage"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Under the Shade of a Paradise - The Florida Review<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/floridareview\/article\/under-the-shade-of-a-paradise\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Under the Shade of a Paradise - 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