The Fort Pointer took in Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez’s Elevar La Cultura, on the Rose Kennedy Greenway at Dewey Square, across from South Station.
The Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy describes the work:
Elevar La Cultura is an immersive sculptural installation featuring a twenty-two-foot-tall pyramid built from the objects of everyday hustle – ice coolers reborn as icons and fused with ancestral textiles, sacred symbols, and mural work. Elevar La Cultura stands as both a monument and an offering, fusing street aesthetics, ancestral iconography, and contemporary storytelling into a powerful visual language that uplifts the voices too often left out of traditional narratives. Inspired by the beauty and resilience of immigrant street vendors and undocumented workers across the country, the artwork honors the creativity, labor, and survivance that fuel resilience and build legacy within many hard-working and vulnerable communities…