Featuring tropical fruit native to Mexico and Central America, Alvarado illuminates the Zapote. A green-skinned fruit with black flesh, whose name originates from the Nahuatl word tzapotl, meaning a soft, sweet fruit. Alvarado presents them elegantly placing them on and around a fine silver bowl. The rich, dark background causes the food to be the focal point of the work, highlighting the uniqueness of each piece of produce. The artist sees his work as a way to celebrate Mexico’s native flora and fauna, solidifying the Zapote’s place in history as a fruit that signifies a reverence for Mesoamerican foods and their role in indigenous and national culture.

"Pedro Diego Alvarado-Rivera’s “Reflejos de Zapotes” is the most
straightforward interpretation of a classic bodegón. Nearly photorealistic, it is
an unabashedly proud vision of Mr. Alvarado-Rivera’s native Mexico. The painter
(the grandson of the famed muralist Diego Rivera) shows fruit common to the
region but little known outside of it spilling from a gleaming silver bowl, putting
the natural riches of his homeland on equal footing with the more readily
recognized value of precious metals." Brian P. Kelly, Wall street Journal, Aug. 2, 2024