At one point in our conversation, Bony Ramirez referred to his work as “cutthroat,” and I kind of fell in love with the word as soon as he uttered it. As I let it linger in my mind, it began to dance all over the images of his canvases, clearly inspired by the life Ramirez has lived. At the first meeting, it’s a bit hard to reconcile that word with the artist himself, whose empathetic spirit can be discerned just two minutes into the conversation. He is generous with the world, not just through the complex themes he explores in art, his considerations of memory, reality, and the entanglements between the two, but also with his vulnerability and willingness to…