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Is there any additional information about the piece, or a title? The toothy appearance of the wood carving and the stacked stone ‘bowls’ are interesting, but I’m not sure how to interpret it.
I see what looks like a coffee bean up top, then at the bottom there’s pebbles, with crude & empty bowls in between. To me it’s a commentary on trickle down economics & colonialism, but who knows. I don’t even know if coffee is a Puerto Rican crop, so I am probably completely wrong.
Cocoa could be another visual interpretation as well, and based on some very cursory searching it looks like both have a history in Spanish colonial Puerto Rico. Now that you’ve brought up that visual aspect, the bowls remind me a bit of volcanic stone metates that are used to grind up cocoa beans (although I’m familiar with that through Costa Rica, not PR).
I forgot about cocoa, but I also don’t know off the top of my head what the beans inside the pods look like. You could be onto something.