A shadowy forest of sugarcane emerges from the surface of a hazy mirror. In Cuba, manigua refers to both a dense forest and, metaphorically, a “chaotic entanglement.” Sugarcane is a product of sixteenth-century Spanish colonists bringing the crop to the island and reflects a dark past. For Teresita Fernández, this work “conjures an image of a Caribbean Landscape as a site of resistance…a meditation on the history of slavery and colonialism in Cuba.”