the
NAUTILUZ
project
A Social Practice and Community and Engagement Project where @NAUTI.LUZ created murals in different communities mainly in Puerto Rico. The project began in Columbus, Ohio in 2015 beautifying and activating spaces with the use color and creative imagery. The project took off in Puerto Rico in 2017 after Hurricanes Irma and Maria with the purpose of uplifting the community with positive massages, opening up important conversations and reactivating underused or abandoned spaces.
Rehabilitation of Cancha Lincoln, Arecibo
Collaboration with The Fixers, TV. (Los Angeles)
Artists: Ralph Serrano and Rachel Smith
In January of del 2020, @NAUTI.LUZ participated in a grand scale project. Through murals and renovations the Cancha Lincoln was reactivated, a basketball court that had been abandoned for years in the town of Arecibo.
ECO- ART SPACES
Collaboration with Plenitud PR
Merging Ecological Practices with creative murals to activate spaces. We bring them to schools in rural/marginalized towns in Puerto Rico.
¡Despierta Boricua!
As many know, Puerto Rico in going through a crisis- economically, politically, socially and even spiritually. Our deceitful government has led us into a $70 billion debt, which is causing our most educated and talented citizens to rush out of the island to find jobs. Puerto Rico is continually being stripped of its riches, BUT we are blessed to have vast amounts of fertile land and optimal weather conditions. Millennials in Puerto Rico are reawakening to the fact that we must return to the land. It's our only hope in creating a self-sustaining and sovereign country.
Mural painted in Calle Ernesto Cerra in 2016.
@Nauti.luz was quoted in a National Geographic article titled “7 Cities to See Powerful Street Art.” She stated that Puerto Rico is “continually being stripped of its riches,” forcing people to move to the United States looking for work. She believes that the only hope is returning to work the islandʼs fertile land and “creating a self-sustaining and sovereign country.”