Manatí

This 1981 print reflects Luis Cajiga’s humanist approach to urban Puerto Rican life, focusing on Manatí. The dense layering of wooden homes, electric wires, and lush greenery captures the vitality and fragility of island communities built on hillsides. The presence of small human figures—women at windows, neighbors in conversation—gives dignity to daily existence. Through color and composition, Cajiga honors vernacular architecture and the resilience of Puerto Rico’s people, situating this work within the broader Latin American tradition of social realism in printmaking.