Throughout his over six-decade-long career, Rodolfo Abularach (1933-2020) created a fascinating spiritual world filled with images of planetary forms, mandalas, and earthly and psychological portals. His most famous subject was the eye, which he saw as a window into the soul. His interest in the mysteries of the earth also led him to depict volcanoes, emblems of the artist’s Guatemalan homeland and ancient history.

He once described his "eyes" as "a symbol of liberation, ascension, and peace. Forms emerging from darkness into light." The eye served as an icon for a multi-dimensional exploration of inner and outer worlds, which Abularach rendered in his spectacular depictions that varied from realistic to geometric, abstract, uncanny, and mystical.

Abularach made his ink drawings with a tightly woven texture, an exquisite cross-hatching he achieved with a pen, giving the illusion of sfumato. These works convey the artist's meditative state; they were drawn mainly at night and seem to reflect the glittering light of a candle.