“What is home to you, and where is home? Home could be anywhere – it could just be in your own mind, your own emotions,” says Adrián Viajero Román. The New York artist stood in front of a tribute to his grandfathers, both of whom moved to the United States in the late 1940s. “They were the first to migrate from Puerto Rico to New York,” he said. Román pointed to his mustachioed abuelo. “He fought in the Korean War and was murdered in his hometown later in life.” The piece is titled “Perhaps Home Is Not a Place but Simply an Irrevocable Condition.” “During the 1940s, Puerto Rico started Operation Bootstrap with the government here to bring Puerto Ricans over for work,” Román explains. “They thought that they’d just be coming to work and then come back. But you end up staying, and it becomes your life.” Those lives are reflected in the new exhibition “Archivos Vivos” at the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture.

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