My piece for Cosmología was inspired by my dear friend and mentor José Luís Rodriguez Guerra, a Mexican painter, sculptor, and printmaker whose work portrays raw human emotion and experience with grand existential themes. His mythological landscapes depict the trials, triumphs, & embodied rituals of ancient Latin American peoples to celebrate the living history of Aztec, Inca, Olmec, and Mayan culture. 

With this work, I wanted to convey a sense of oneness with a vast, unfathomable universe. A meditation—

To realize this vision, I adapted a photograph of the Rosette Nebula taken by the Hubble Space Telescope (at left). The figure sits on an imagined desert landscape, in direct conversation with the universe. Surrounded by whispering grasses, yaupon trees, and blooming agaves, she is at peace.