The Rebirth of a Goddess is the portraiture of artist, subject, and muse Luna Jay Yvelisse Rodriguez, created through digital illustration and mixed-media collage.

Luna centers her Afro-Indigenous Caribbean identity, spirituality, and the complexities of womanhood. Her work explores femininity, bodily autonomy, motherhood, matriarchy, love, heartbreak, grief, loss, abuse, sexual violence, survival, rage, vengeance, healing, and transformation.

Her visual language is rooted in Caribbean landscapes, Arawak-Taíno symbolism, tropical flora, plants, shells, native foods, sacred objects, devotional imagery, and anatomical imagery. These forms become symbolic self-representations embodying home, ancestry, spirituality, stored emotions, and cultural continuity.

Spirituality is central to Luna's practice. Rooted in Puerto Rican Espiritismo, ancestral cosmologies, astrology, and the veneration of goddesses across cultures, her work weaves Indigenous and African diasporic deities, Zemí figures, Marian imagery, sacred hearts, and ritual objects into devotional compositions where religion, mythology, history, and ancestral memory intersect.

Each piece functions as both altar and offering, transforming lived experience into visual ritual. Reclaiming her body as a site of wisdom, creation, healing, and spiritual authority, Luna emerges as a contemporary patron saint of rebirth.

At its core, The Rebirth of a Goddess is an act of reclamation—honoring identity, resistance, and resilience.