- Athletics designer and creative director Daniel Irizarry’s latest project, Between Worlds, is a typographic self-portrait exploring cultural identity.
- Between Worlds explores the tension common among Puerto Ricans in the US diaspora, who identify with two cultures but feel neither culture claims them.
Puerto Ricans are not immigrants per se, as the commonwealth is a part of the United States and its residents are American citizens.
However, culturally and historically, Puerto Rico is often perceived as not being wholly integrated into the fabric of American society. To be sure, America is not a homogeneous culture, with plenty of differences across ethnicities, races, religions, and geographies. With over 6 million stateside Puerto Ricans across the rest of America, the island’s culture is present, if not always embraced. That duality of being part of America’s identity while maintaining its own individualism leads to cultural tension and underrepresentation.
