Pretty nice cat tree…
Is there any additional information about the piece, or a title? The toothy appearance of the wood carving and the stacked stone ‘bowls’ are interesting, but I’m not sure how to interpret it.
The card next to it didn’t have much information. I searched online for a little bit only finding that the artist has done numerous pieces with wood and stone like this. Similarly without deep explanations that I could find.
I actually enjoy not knowing the intent.
It definitely adds a layer of mystique! Part of me also wants to see water running down into the bowls from the mouth, I bet it would be really cool outside in the rain.
I see what looks like a coffee bean up top, then at the bottom there’s pebbles, with crude & empty bowls in between. To me it’s a commentary on trickle down economics & colonialism, but who knows. I don’t even know if coffee is a Puerto Rican crop, so I am probably completely wrong.
Cocoa could be another visual interpretation as well, and based on some very cursory searching it looks like both have a history in Spanish colonial Puerto Rico. Now that you’ve brought up that visual aspect, the bowls remind me a bit of volcanic stone metates that are used to grind up cocoa beans (although I’m familiar with that through Costa Rica, not PR).
I forgot about cocoa, but I also don’t know off the top of my head what the beans inside the pods look like. You could be onto something.
![[OC] Art piece by Ramón Berríos, displayed in the Puerto Rico museum of art.](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/41461ad2-5548-4793-a3e9-9fc21066fc1e.jpeg){kind=link}