Jimenez Underwood’s “Galactic Detention Center” series offers unique interpretations of constellation maps woven from steel and aluminum barbed wire and metallic thread. These pieces capture a celestial glow and evoke stars and cosmic matter. The series addresses young people in juvenile detention and those now held in immigration detention centers. Imagining these centers in a cosmic context highlights 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, choosing materials that are 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.