In the parking lot of the museum in New York, the artist painted a mural dedicated to doctors

A Cuban-American artist, Jorge Rodriguez-Herada, painted a 1,858-square-meter fresco in the parking lot of the Queens Museum, New York. The image scale makes it visible from satellites. This work is a tribute to Latin American medical professionals who risked their own lives and safety while caring for others.

The work, entitled “Somos La Luz,” or “We Are The Light,” is a large-scale image of Dr. Idelfonso Deco, a Latin American doctor who died while fighting a coronavirus in New York.

Rodriguez-Herada hopes to draw attention to the disproportionate number of cases of COVID-19 among Hispanic and black people in the United States. The place of the mural was not just chosen: Queens is one of the most virus-affected areas in New York.

Somos La Luz is part of the Queens Museum partnership with the human rights organization Make the Road New York and the medical organization SOMOS Community Care, of which Dr. Deco was a member. SOMOS mainly includes Hispanic immigrants and Chinese doctors who treat African-American and Hispanic communities.