Miami Herald on this season in the arts

2020’s collision of crises reflected in artwork, on stages – and even on a billboard 
George Fishman September 27, 2020 08:03 AM.

Miami artist Adler Guerrier’s dramatic double billboard mural “claimed for living, for love and trouble” was commissioned for the exterior of the Design District’s Moore Building, where it will remain for the next several months. The work combines poetic text with graphics and subtropical flora to explore the uncomfortable issues of race and class while evoking comfort and communion in the shelter of natural beauty.

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claimed for living, for love and trouble

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claimed for living, for love and trouble

A work composed of text, design, and images, assembled to configure a place of everyday Miami textures, rendered to hold an apt imaginary in support of the ranges within Black social life. 

Here is a place claimed for the purpose of living, fashioned to engender love, fortified to protect its inhabitants and to withstand the spectres of trouble.

We live here. 

We live informed by the poetics of immigrant culture, Caribbean tendencies, Black diasporic experience, and strengthened by the forcefulness of radical traditions that prepared us to imagine, and to claim the conditions we need to live with dignity.


Seen from the corner of NE 2 Avenue and 40 Street.


Billboard layout.