These two installation works explore the elusive promise of the American Dream as it intersects with Cuban immigrant experience, particularly through the lens of the Mariel boatlift. Using Scarface's iconic phrase “The World Is Yours,” the work examines how popular culture creates mythologies around immigrant success while simultaneously distorting the actual experience of arrival and assimilation. The jewelry case displays a nameplate necklace reading 'the world is yours,' broken at the word 'yours,' the promise fractured at the moment of supposed possession. Housed in a mirrored display case, it creates a space for desire/self-reflection; viewers confront their own relationship to aspiration/belonging. The accompanying photo booth offers a different kind of engagement, a site of performance and participation where visitors can literally 'try on' versions of success or identity. Tony Montana functions as both aspiration and farce of the 'marielito' experience, embodying the irony of how Cuban immigrants are simultaneously mythologized as 'model immigrants' while being caricatured in popular culture. The work reflects on my own family's connection to the Mariel boatlift, examining how the dangling carrot of the American Dream operates - always promising, rarely delivering, and often breaking just when it seems within reach.