Amy Bravo is a visual artist of Italian-Cuban origin. By combining symbols and icons from popular and religious Latin American culture with personal family stories, Bravo invents her own intimate and fantastic vision of an afterlife island universe that mixes the known with the unknown and beauty with confusion. Bravo’s approach to painting is unconventional, as she prefers loose canvas cut and stitched together to create irregular shapes on which she combines graphite drawings, painterly techniques, and collage. The resultant drawings expand into painting, embroidery, and assemblage and include objects like dried leaves, lace, carousel horse trinkets, pieces of furniture, and artifacts from her family home.