Reimagining tragaluces (glass-blocks) as sculptures, this project refers to the architectural element often found in middle-class homes in Puerto Rico, while incorporating photographs and crumbling paint chips from my grandmother’s house. Through this project, I venture through time and color as an archeologist, transforming what remains of communities experiencing decline and gentrification in a climatic environment that is unforgiving to both the material world and memory. Given that these decorative blocks are fabricated with textures that make light refract and prevent clear visibility through them, I utilize these blocks and materials to illustrate the familial/r histories, embodying the balance between transparency and opacity, as Glissant theorized. By bringing these tragaluces into the gallery, I reveal what the walls of these homes safeguard as a form of resistance to the displacement of the people and stories they shelter— I facilitate audiences to re-evaluate their intrinsic value and consider new understandings of community and its perpetuation.