A program note explained that "Guajira" is a word referring to the women of the Cuban countryside.
And each of the small paintings is enclosed within a small wooden bird cage of a kind handmade by the artist's grandfather in the Cuban countryside.
His father was a tobacco farmer in Pinar del Rio, a town in the Cuban countryside near the western end of the island.
He named it Romancero Guajiro (countryman's romance), a modernist approach to the stories and colors of the Cuban countryside.
Tocororo is the story of a young Cuban boy who leaves his family and home in the Cuban countryside to find a new life in a city.
Pedro Ruiz's "Guajira" is a portrait of women of the Cuban countryside.
A collection of intimate portraits taken in the Cuban countryside and the Kurdish territories in Southeastern Turkey.
The paintings that resulted from his maturity as an artist fluctuated between idyllic views of the Cuban countryside and criticism of Cuba's social conditions.
They traveled all over the Cuban countryside and met with dissidents, which is strange, because when you have an embargo with a country, you keep to yourself.
Even in the Cuban countryside, children wear shoes, and I see electrical lines running to the smallest houses.