Untitled VIII represents Sierra's ongoing practice of painting his body as tribute to Afro-Colombian and pre-Columbian cultures, then documenting these performances in photographs that portray him in erotic and suggestive positions. The work functions as ancestral body archive—preserving cultural aesthetic traditions through living performance rather than museum objectification. Sierra's insistence on the erotic dimension is politically significant: it refuses the purification of Indigenous and African cultural practices that colonialism demanded and that contemporary folklorization continues. The homoerotic gaze Sierra applies to his own painted body suggests that desire, pleasure, and sexuality were always part of these cultural traditions, even when colonial and post-colonial narratives erased them. By merging himself as "subject of aesthetic creation" with ancestral body painting practices, Sierra creates photographs that honor the past while insisting on the queer present's right to that inheritance.
 
Body Paint tribute to the Afro and pre-Columbian cultures, taking erotic and suggestive poses such as reading among others.
 
Ancestral cultural traditions archived through erotic painted body performance—Afro-Colombian and pre-Columbian heritage claimed via homoerotic self-representation and desire. Nude photography documentation. Available at The Art Design Project, Miami Beach.