A large-scale graphite drawing rendered with intimate precision, Tías (2016) presents a group of women whose intergenerational bonds and domestic histories are made visible through Argote's careful, labor-intensive mark-making. The composition draws from the artist's personal archive of family memory, translating photographic source material into a surface where the accumulated pressure of the graphite hand becomes a form of devotion and witness. Argote treats portraiture not as fixed representation but as an act of recovery, honoring the overlooked labor and emotional weight carried by the women who shape family life across generations. Carmen Argote is a Los Angeles-based artist whose practice spans drawing, installation, and performance, consistently exploring how domestic space and family history intersect with broader questions of migration, identity, and belonging. Tías, whose title translates from Spanish as "aunts," sits at the core of this inquiry, centering figures who occupy an affectionate and often understated role within Latinx familial structures. The work's intimacy is inseparable from its scale, asking viewers to reckon with the significance of those who are rarely centered in formal representation. Signed by the artist and presented without a frame, Tías was exhibited at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions and represents a significant moment in Argote's ongoing engagement with the politics of visibility and care. For collectors drawn to work that operates at the intersection of the personal and the political, this piece offers both formal rigor and deep emotional resonance, functioning equally as a document of family love and a larger meditation on whose lives are considered worthy of memorialization.