The photograph embodies months of "watching over and recording each detail of this space to get a correct reading between the aesthetics of the place and the body." By this point in the residence, Sierra has achieved deep familiarity with the century-old architecture, allowing his body to function not as visitor but as archival instrument—preserving spatial qualities, proportions, light conditions, material textures through positioned presence. La Costilla Roja (The Red Rib) suggests the body as both structural element and vulnerable exposure, echoing how vernacular architecture protects while revealing, contains while expressing. This ecosystem translation produces images where Colombian rural architectural heritage and contemporary queer body coexist in mutual documentation.
 
This work is the result of an artistic residence outside his "study”.The artist worked on a different ecosystem, a house of vernacular architecture built in 1913 in the department of Huila, Colombia. It is important to highlight the practice session of watching over and recording each detail of this space to get a correct reading between the aesthetics of the place and the body.  
 
Monochromatic light photography that immerses the male nude and the jungle in an intense and mystical red light. From Jose Sierra's La Costilla Roja series, 2016. Available at The Art Design Project, Miami Beach.