In this 11″ x 8.5″, 256-page volume—available in both hardback and paperback—readers are invited into the intimate sketchbook world of Aymara Jewish Bolivian artist Sharoll Fernandez Siñani. Before her large-scale, 60″ x 48″ canvases become part of communal gatherings and exhibitions, they begin as selected sketches that must “pass the filter”: can they tell the story, build the conceptual ecosystem, and reflect the artist’s spiritual deepness? Only then do these sketches transform into the monumental paintings shown in galleries and museums, each an offering at Sharoll’s ritual celebrations of honoring the dead through food, dance, and shared memory.

Where museum-goers typically see the final canvases, To Senkata and to My Dead reveals the original drawings—the seeds of the Metamorphosis series. Rendered entirely in black and white, Metamorphosis documents a raw journey through grief—darkness, grace, gratitude, anger, sadness, and, ultimately, renewal. At the series’ end, one painting introduces a single pink stroke, the only hint of color in the entire collection and in the book itself. Its message: by moving through sorrow with intention and integrity, our capacity to love expands, growing both deeper and wiser.

Complementing the visual narrative is experimental typography—influenced by Andean aesthetics yet pushing beyond them—that forms a third language in the conversation between image and text. Throughout, the book’s trilingual poetry (Aymara, Spanish, English) underscores Sharoll’s commitment to bridging divides. She believes that constructive disagreement can be a powerful tool for protecting everyone in a fractured world, reminding us that if we engage our differences with care rather than hostility, we become capable of building a future anchored in presence—with all that implies, fully present presence beyond resistance—and ultimately a more just, resilient society.