Sita Gomez: A Historical Memoir

French-born, Cuban American visual artist Sita Gomez recounts her life as a child in Nazi-occupied Paris, her family’s escape to Cuba in the early 1940s, and going into exile to New York City after Castro’s 1959 Cuban Revolution. Gomez tells the story of both sides of her family, the maternal (Swedish-Norwegian) and the paternal (Cuban) through brief “portraits” of the main players of this story, and the events surrounding them that shaped Sita’s life which later on would inform her artistic creations.