These paintings were a series created for a painting class. They reflect four different altar traditions that I practiced as a child in Argentina. The first, on the top left, is an altar to San Antonio, a favorite of my grandmother who has now become a fixture of my family's religious practice. In the top right is an painting inspired by stone mounds that are built around Argentina, both in populated areas and in isolated wildernesses, that are devotional piles made for worshipping la Pachamama. In the bottom left is a representation of an altar I would make to the deceased guard dogs my grandmother kept. No one taught me to do this, but as a child I would obsessively build these floral designs on their graves, both as a way to remember and honor these dogs and as an art project. The last is a depiction of an Argentinean Asado (barbecue). In Argentina, asado is a central cultural practice wherein the community gathers for a casual feast. Often when attendance is high, entire cows will be roasted on upright spits placed near a gargantuan fire. The dramatic event is as much a form of communal bonding as it is a celebration of meat.