Originally titled Deseo Insular X, this photograph represents Sierra's ongoing project of archiving the Caribbean queer body through deliberate engagement with childhood visual culture. The series title "Deseo Insular" (Insular Desire) speaks to the specific conditions of growing up queer in Cartagena—an island city where geographic isolation mirrors cultural isolation for those outside heteronormative expectations. Sierra's reversion to his past through these staged environments creates space for desires that existed then but couldn't be named, using adult artistic practice to retroactively claim childhood visual territory.
 
The artist was fascinated by certain images he had a connection with since childhood, transforming them into iconography, such as the image of a fisherman carrying a codfish of almost the same size on his back. This composition is complemented by the use of a dairy remedy, the traditional multivitamin "Scott's Emulsion." These iconic elements, which he grew up with in the 1990s, still exist and are a source of resonance, suggesting the artist thanks to the place where he conceived this series. "Insular Desire" is a reminiscence of his past. Sierra's current work continues to be based on his self-representation, from which he approaches a homoerotic perspective by configuring staged environments with objects in which he integrates himself as a "subject of aesthetic creation"
 
Caribbean queer body archived through childhood fisherman iconography—geographic and cultural insularity transformed into artistic territory of desire and self-representation. Nude photography from Deseo Insular. Available at The Art Design Project, Miami Beach.