Living through a hurricane is an engulfing, often overwhelming experience. The work of multimedia artist Sarabel Santos-Negrón immerses visitors in the sensations of the storm: "Under Pressure" is an audio recording of the passage of Hurricane María through her family home in Bayamón, Puerto Rico. The lashing of the wind and the rhythmic banging of objects colliding offer the virtual visitor an aural slice of what millions of Caribbean people survive every year. 

Dark humor has long been a strategy of creative resistance for Caribbean peoples. The popular Puerto Rican expression "I live where you vacation" inspired photographer Jo Cosme to create the series "Welcome to Paradise" after Hurricane Maria.

The title of Sally Binard's "Reclamation" refers to both the salvage of physical debris after Hurricane Irma, and to the reclamation and transformation of her artistic practice. Binard observes that after the storm, her work became less about abstract aesthetics and more about narrating the physical process of building things.

Hurricane Irma destroyed Florida Keys-based artist Sally Binard's home in 2017. After the storm, she saw how "everything that was on the inside of a person's home was on the outside...and everything that was in the inside of a person was was also on the outside." Her self-portrait "Afraid to Launch," made out of found materials she salvaged from the wreckage of her home, evokes that sense of upheaval.