Donde esta el Cristal? by Red Trillium Press
"I arrived on May 27 [2019] to the José Marti national Airport as always. Noticeable the moment I walked out of the airport was the lack of old American cars. I did not see an American car parking lot, where were they?
"'Donde estas el Crystal' reflects the current atmosphere in Havana with the withdrawal of US tourism and other measures by the Trump administration to eliminate opening of the US – Cuban relations during the Obama administration.
"'Hace mucho calor!'; 'This is a difficult time it may be as bad as the special period.'; 'We stood in line for four hours waiting for chicken, then there was no chicken.'
"In these moments I wasn’t sure whether the people were talking about the temperature or their frustrations."
As well as text being printed as normal on pages, quotes are also printed in one line across the bottom of the page like a running ticker tape of conversation: "Yes, things will get worse here, there is no peace of mind …" - Steven Daiber
Processes, Dimensions, and Edition Information
By Steven Daiber and Jessica Vázquez Quintana
Massachusetts: Red Trillium Press, 2019. Edition of 4 variants + 1 AP.104 x 10 inches open. Accordion structure. Text in Spanish and English. Silkscreen on 1978 Atlas de Cuban pages. First printed in the June heat of 2019 at the Taller de Serigrafía René Portocarrero, Havana, Cuba on the 1978 Atlas de Cuba. Text added later at Red Trillium Press. Pamphlet bound with Kyoseishi Sora as a cover paper. Silk screen printing by Daiber and Quintana. Numbered.