{"id":118866,"date":"2017-12-04T13:00:05","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T18:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=118866"},"modified":"2017-12-08T16:39:02","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T21:39:02","slug":"puerto-rico-sketchbook-artists-shovels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/04\/puerto-rico-sketchbook-artists-shovels\/","title":{"rendered":"Puerto Rico Sketchbook: The Artists with the Shovels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>In November, the artist and writer Molly Crabapple spent a week in Puerto Rico documenting grassroots efforts by communities to rebuild after Hurricane Maria. Here are excerpts from her sketchbook.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_118870\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/bridge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-118870\" class=\"size-large wp-image-118870\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/bridge-1024x697.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/bridge-1024x697.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/bridge-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/bridge-768x523.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-118870\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Molly Crabapple, <em>Bridge<\/em>, 2017.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi has lost track of\u00a0how many times he\u2019s\u00a0been to Barrio Paloma Abajo since the hurricane hit. As he drove up the vertiginous roads of the Cordillera Central, he ticked off what he and his colleagues at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.defendpr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Defend PR<\/a>\u00a0have accomplished so far. They were working with an architect to rebuild houses wrecked by Maria. They brought seeds and water filters and set up a solar-powered cinema. Solar lights, mosquito nets, batteries, bug spray, rat traps. They drove kids to a local comedy show. They installed tarps on roofs and brought\u00a0chain saws to cut down the dangling tree branches and shoveled debris from the broken bridge. They organized themselves into brigades to clean wrecked farms. Jacobs-Fantauzzi\u00a0rolled up his sleeve and showed me a trail of red welts. Ants, he suspected.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Jacobs-Fantauzzi is a filmmaker, not an aid worker.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.defendpr.com\/\">Defend PR<\/a>, the media collective he cofounded, had been\u00a0known for its documentary shorts, not for delivering hundreds of meals, as they planned to that day. His carmates were the circus performer Lizaimi Rivera Rivera and the artist Edgardo Larregui Rodriguez, who created Coco de Oro, the community organization that works with Defend PR in the barrio. Yet these artists had done\u00a0something that neither Puerto Rico\u2019s neglectful colonial overlords nor its governor\u00a0had bothered to try. After the hurricane hit, they loaded their cars with donations from Defend PR and the Puerto Rican diaspora and drove into the mountains, determined to find out what people needed.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_118871\" style=\"width: 770px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/comeriocleanup.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-118871\" class=\"wp-image-118871 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/comeriocleanup-760x1024.jpg\" width=\"760\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/comeriocleanup-760x1024.jpg 760w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/comeriocleanup-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/comeriocleanup-768x1034.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-118871\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>PALOMA ABAJO CLEANUP<\/em>,\u00a02017.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>During one of their early trips to the Comeri\u00f3 municipality, they found\u00a0Barrio Paloma Abajo. \u201cWe were driving by and saw a group of people in front of two flags with the message, <small>DON\u2019T\u00a0ASK WHAT P.R. CAN DO FOR YOU, BUT WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR P.R.<\/small>\u201d\u00a0Jacobs-Fantauzzi told me. \u201cWe stopped and met\u00a0Cuca, the\u00a0owner of the house. She introduced us to Tete, a thirteen-year-old with an amazing haircut. Tete jumped on his bike and took us all around Paloma Abajo. When we talked to people, they told us stories about what they\u2019d lost, who\u2019d lost their houses, who\u2019d lost their roofs, who was bedridden, and who needed the most help &#8230; The community is so kind. They make us food and coffee and treat us like family. The kids meet us at the bridge to the community, with hugs, ready to work. The community started organizing itself, and we felt the need to keep encouraging that and helping however we could. That\u2019s the story, that\u2019s why we keep coming back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Paloma Abajo is a cascade of houses hanging from the mountainside\u2014tiny, cheap, constructed by the neighborhood\u2019s working-class residents, but each is a palace, if one could measure that by the panache of their arches, the brio of the fleurdelis\u00e9 fences that border the balconies, their lace ironwork, their\u00a0walls colored like blueberries or salt-water taffy or cr\u00e8me de menthe. Water and electricity had already been erratic in the barrio since May, but two months after Maria, it was nonexistent, save for a single, mocking streetlight. Blue tarp stretched over many homes, makeshift covering for missing roofs. The tarps were not from <small>FEMA<\/small>, an old man stressed, though the military had set up headquarters a short drive away. They did, however, have piles of MREs.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_118873\" style=\"width: 792px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/shovels.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-118873\" class=\"size-large wp-image-118873\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/shovels-782x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"782\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/shovels-782x1024.jpg 782w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/shovels-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/shovels-768x1006.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-118873\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Shovels<\/em>, 2017.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I sketched the Defend PR crew as they spent the day digging and hauling alongside residents, and then as they helped hand out the two hundred hot meals donated by a San Juan chef.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur colonial government, the USA, and our local government have failed the people at a time when they needed the most help,\u201d Jacobs-Fantauzzi told me later. \u201cEverywhere I look, I see Puerto Ricans helping each other. We are the answer to our own problems and collectively we can create a just transition where we have\u00a0a good\u00a0relationship with\u00a0our land and with\u00a0each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Molly Crabapple is an artist and author of the memoir <\/em>Drawing Blood<em>. Her next book,\u00a0<\/em>Brothers of the Gun<em>, cowritten with the Syrian war journalist Marwan Hisham, will be published by Random House in May 2018.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In November, the artist and writer Molly Crabapple spent a week in Puerto Rico documenting grassroots efforts by communities to rebuild after Hurricane Maria. Here are excerpts from her sketchbook. &nbsp; Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi has lost track of\u00a0how many times he\u2019s\u00a0been to Barrio Paloma Abajo since the hurricane hit. 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