The Virgen Nopalera alludes to Chicano art iconography, including the Virgen de Guadalupe’s mandorla, and builds off of the subtle religious symbolism. Adorned with cactus flowers and prickly thorns, plus sitting on resin-encased baby dolls, the brothers sculpt a display of a blossoming cactus to segue into conversations regarding religion and identity. Patricia Escárcega says the following about their expansive visual lexicon in her New York Times article, “De la Torre Brothers Are Making the Most of Maximalism.” “Pre-Columbian deities, Mexican lucha libre wrestlers, Olmec heads, Slavic water spirits — the de la Torres’ visual universe is vast and pantheistic. The brothers freely mix high and low, in part, they say, to challenge entrenched ideas about beauty and ‘good taste.”