Jimenez Underwood’s Galactic Detention Center series presents unique interpretations of constellation maps woven with steel and aluminum barbed wire and metallic thread. These pieces capture a celestial glow and evoke stars and cosmic matter. This series discusses the young people in juvenile detention and those now being held in immigration detention centers. Imagining these centers in a cosmic context brings to mind their arbitrary nature, indeed, their ridiculousness, for what is a human system of documentation compared to the universal scale of life? Jimenez Underwood constructed these studies as an exploration in metal, expressing that this series called for material that is hard, cold, and often sharp. In this way, the metal’s connotations mirror the nature of outer space and the lack of humanity in the immigration detention centers they reference.