Lucia Hierro’s witty, playful, and audacious work employs Latinx and Caribbean vernaculars, exploring the relationships between identity, objects, and consumption. Born and raised in Washington Heights in New York to a Dominican family, Hierro is known for large-scale soft sculptures of everyday objects and food commonly found in bodegas. Using felt and digital printing techniques, she recreates images of empanadas, Goya products, and pastelitos, along with American products, highlighting the objects that her community consumes.   Hierro explores commodity culture using ethnically specific motifs while illustrating human attachments to objects. By depicting her objects in both a soft and monumental manner, Hierro provides a degree of animation to her sculptures. Can I Borrow a Cup of Sugar is an immense sculpture of a bag of Domino sugar. Using brushed suede and digital printing techniques, the work is an oversize representation of this everyday object. At first glance, the sculpture comes across as humorous and lively, a fun approach to the portrayal of sugar. At the same time, sugar bears political, economic, and social dimensions that have greatly affected the modern world. Sugar was the primary product of slavery in the Caribbean, and has become one of the main food industries in the contemporary world.