Barbara Calderón writes for ArtNet News that "'Nopalitos Tuna, y Xoconostle' (2020) is the artist’s painting of cactus fruits, rendered on a circular panel. Rosales-Silva and I have an ongoing discussion about 'nopal art': the over-reliance on cultural symbols like nopales, plátanos, or Virgen de Guadalupes that make a piece legibly “Latinx.” Such overt symbols often overpower any criticality in the work, making it fall prey to stereotypical, celebratory clichés that institutions often use as a stand-in for 'Latinx art...' But although this particular piece is indeed an image of a cactus with a title combining Spanish and Nahuatl words, it’s also an abstraction. Though the fear of losing ownership over cultural symbols is not imagined, there are many manners in which brownness can exist. Rosales-Silva chooses instead to provoke uncertainty, disassemble and reorganize the visible, and through that process he captures a much-sought-after magic."