Abstract
From a recording of a hot pink flower on a foggy hillside, its leaves trembling slightly in the wind, to the ink made from its petals pooling onto white cardstock, Puerto Rican artist Rosaura Rodríguez shares her experimental processes on Instagram stories, fifteen seconds at a time. Instagram is a fraught platform that encourages aesthetic homogeneity, and yet, continues to function as a site for developing micro-poetic techniques. This article focuses on Rodríguez’s in-process Instagram Stories, and particularly the “Highlights” feature which allows her to archive her working processes for two of her projects: 1. Temporada, a self-published comic that meditates on post hurricane María disaster recovery; 2. pigment-making from the plant and rock matter found around Tabonuco, the mountain farm and education center in the Cordillera Central of Puerto Rico where she lives. These two projects demonstrate how she uses the affordances of the Instagram Story feature to practice a form of digital placemaking that foreground the pace and scale of the plants, animals, and minerals around her.
Recommended Citation
Murray-Román, Jeannine.
2026.
"“Un compromiso con la tierra”: Digital Placemaking in the Art of Rosaura Rodríguez’'s Instagram Stories."
archipelagos: a journal of Caribbean digital praxis
9.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17132/2689-842X.1002
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