Born and raised in California, Consuelo Jimenez Underwood was born into a large campesino family and began learning to weave from her Huichol father and embroider from her Chicana mother. She encountered and crossed the border frequently, moving between family homes in California and Mexicali. Less frequently, she’d cross to find her father and bring him back to the U.S. after he’d been deported. Borders are one of the most prominent themes in Jimenez Underwood’s work and are usually crafted with harsh materials like barbed wire, but in "California Sunset" the artist weaves delicate gold- and silver-threaded borders within the setting sun, alluding to happier memories living along the borderlands.

"Consuelo Jimenez Underwood is from neither Mexico nor the United States. She is of the borderlands...Experiencing the border as a child was both fantastic and horrifying. It was the backdrop of her childhood, enigmatic and ever present. As a child, Jimenez Underwood learned that the border was a force to be reckoned with." Maria Esther Fernandez, "Consuelo Jimenez Underwood Welcome to Flower-Landia," Triton Museum of Art, 2013