Consuelo Jimenez Underwood American, b. 1949

Consuelo Jimenez Underwood shares, "[Night Lights] was for the ladies of the night. The streetwalkers, the ones that I was familiar with because of my childhood. I remember they would always smile at me and realize that I had a hard time. They were some of the nicer people, women, in my childhood. I don't know what happened to all of these women. I wanted to make a piece that would represent the Guadalupe Virgen protecting them. And that's why I used real shiny fluorescent colors, because that's how they would dress at night. But I wanted to depict the night—because it was night when they came out, I needed the night to be over them.”

The work is part of her "Burial Shrouds series" that she does not longer produces. The gridded veil that drapes over the work often acts as a barrier and protection from view of what lies behind.