The fraught term “master” simultaneously conjures slavery, the idea of the primary (a master copy), and art history (old masters, masterpiece, master/apprentice, mastery of a skill). Using rigorous and exquisite techniques rooted in centuries of artistic practice, Harmonia Rosales rewrites the canon, or the master narrative of art history, from the perspective of an Afro-Cuban American woman in the twenty-first century. Her canvases seamlessly weave the tales and characters of West African Yorùbá and Greek mythology and Christianity with the canonical works and artistic techniques of the European Renaissance. Through her visual storytelling, Rosales presents the notion of human and cultural survival on her own terms — one that highlights the beauty and strength of Black people, particularly women, while touching upon grand narratives of creation, tragedy, survival, and transcendence.