“The idea for this piece came to a friend and me as we were talking about our mutual admiration for moths and butterflies. I have a Luna moth tattooed on my arm, so we went into thinking what if moths were actually selenites. What if there were a whole universe of winged beings beyond the cosmos? So each one of us made something around this idea. My friend made something more terrestrial, I made something fluid and cosmic, as that’s my jam. It’s supposed to depict a godly being, not quite defined, still being allured to this thing, a flower, a scent, a light, or the three combined. Like moths to fire or butterflies to flowers, what would be so alluring to something so ineffable? The thought of celestial beings that cannot be perfectly parsed is something I obsessed with, so that’s what I went for here. This creature made of light, with winds that slowly spiral and flow like oil in water. I admit I might be a bit too much into Evangelion, haha.”

– Santiago Rosas on the inspiration behind “Cosmic Allure”