Sunflower #2 belongs to a series where the artist soaks the eponymous flowers in a brownish-yellow pigment and throws them against the paper resulting in dramatic splatters and runs of color down the canvas. The flowers are then collaged to the works. Their centerpieces resemble gunshots that have left a large mess of blood, or the remains of a spiritual cleansing that contains all the unwanted energies of a body. Like suns, they could be heroes that have been sacrificed with their bodies left on the crime scene as chastisement, just as Christ was left and is remembered on the cross by Catholics. They are a metaphor for the dynamics of a revolutionary process that both generates and replaces martyrs.  The sunflowers are used in the syncretic practices of Catholicism and Santería in Cuba, particularly to pay homage to the Virgin of El Cobre and her homologue orisha (goddess), Oshún. From this perspective, the hostility of the image recalls the desecration of systems of beliefs, and ultimately the loss of hope—something seen in the Cuba of the latter decades.