episode 242 | Mariana Ramos Ortiz

This week, Miranda speaks with Mariana Ramos Ortiz, an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the structural and temporal qualities of sand in relation to themes of occupation, self-determination, permanence, and protection— within the context of Puerto Rico’s ongoing colonial realities.

In our conversation, we discuss how they uses play and community as tactics of protest and healing, the role of ephemerality and material experimentation in printmaking, and how their practice engages with landscape, memory, and resistance as acts of reflection and reclamation.