I surrounded the plane with 46 luggage pieces and numbered them chronologically from 1959 to 2004, the years of the Cuba has been under Castro’s regime.  I then invited exiles to describe their own journey to freedom, using pen and paper, and placed a copy of each message in the luggage pertaining to the year of departure.  (The originals are archived at the University of Miami Libraries Cuban Heritage Collection, the largest archive of things Cuban outside of Cuba.)   Through individual accounts, this art piece portrays the Cuban Diaspora.

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• Click here to read about Celebra Libertad, the Painted Cuban Plane's inaugural event during May 19, 2004