Maldonado mainly incorporates stories of family, life experiences, introspective reflection, and observations of the world in their paintings. This painting is a departure as it was inspired by a recuring dream. In the dream, the artist transforms into a moth who flies quickly through space to the face of the the sun. The sun reviled thier loneliness, that whenver someone got close they burned up. As the artists reflects what the sun shared they immidetely wake up from the dream.

Maldonado has written:
"Making this painting happed both in my studiio and inside my dreams. Over the course of a tumultuous year I dreamed about this encounter with the sun. As I built up the layers of paint onto the raw canvas I was able to make visible a new relationship with a huge force in my life. I had always considered the sun superor to me, a god to pray to, but never as an equal. Through this painting I was able to understand myself in relation to the sun not as subsurvient but as a peer and a celestial sibling."