“…I thought of a maze of mazes, of a sinuous, ever growing maze which would take in both past and future and would somehow involve the stars” -Jorge Luis Borges
In Borges’ The Garden of Forking Paths, the chronicle of events create ever expanding spatial and temporal frameworks choreographed by human choice, simultaneously engendered with the notion of multiple realities. The paths of Dr. Yu Tsun, Captain Richard Madden and Stephen Albert converge and diverge, at once writing Ts'ui Pen’s novel of infinite extensions. So while the consequence of action in one reality may terminate that path, it continues to thrive in another.
In parallel, the social, political and economic framework of contemporary Cuba, as a consequence of the communist system, has given rise to a complexity of multiple realities played out at global and local scales. These realities are acted out as survival and preservation measures without entirely unraveling the fragility of its framework. And where gaps present themselves, connective and productive constructs of a visible and invisible nature are put into play.
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