Plants are conceptually, aesthetically, and spiritually central to Dominguez-Claro's work. As a student in New York, she studied botanical illustration at the New York Botanical Garden while pursuing her MFA. Around the same period, a close friend was diagnosed with cancer. As the artist explains, "On the path of looking for healing, I began to understand then how the spirits inhabit medicinal plants, which were so strong that I could not continue to illustrate them in a realistic, supposedly objective, one-dimensional way." Her investigation into the cosmic potential of plants continued when she founded Studio Vegetalista, an organization dedicated to teaching botanical and natural science illustration to people outside the art world through slow Looking and meditative connection.
(Several Eternities in a Day: Form in the Age of Living Materials, Hammer Museum, exhibition wall text)