Untitled I, this photograph opens Sierra's body painting series, establishing his methodology of honoring Afro-Colombian and pre-Columbian cultures through painted performance documented in erotic and suggestive positions. This genesis work sets crucial parameters: cultural tribute will not be performed through respectability or ethnographic distance but through embodied engagement, queer desire, and homoerotic self-representation. Sierra's painted body becomes living canvas where Caribbean Colombia's dual African and Indigenous heritage—often separated in official narratives—coexist in unified aesthetic. The erotic positioning refuses the desexualization that museums and anthropology impose on colonized cultures, insisting instead that bodies, pleasure, and desire have always been part of cultural expression. By documenting these performances photographically, Sierra creates archives where queer Colombian bodies claim ancestral heritage without asking permission or adopting imposed "authenticity."
 
Body Paint tribute to the Afro and pre-Columbian cultures, taking erotic and suggestive poses such as reading among others.
 
Painted cultural tribute performance—Afro-Colombian and pre-Columbian heritage claimed through erotic body painting and homoerotic self-representation. Available at The Art Design Project, Miami Beach.