The piece was made with the phrase “assurance” in mind. It is the idea of “solid” and “concrete” to describe our certainty about a subject, aligned with the misconception of rock bottom being a place one avoids, instead of the place where we start, the place we call home.

Ruben Dario Ramirez’s artwork focuses on aspects of life we all assume to know, yet live in a state of amnesia about. He uses paint, colored pencils, and digital illustration to create pieces about the human condition within a Dominican-American lense.