María DeGuzmán is a literary scholar, a conceptual photographer, and a music composer / sound designer. Her photographic work has been exhibited at The Carrack Gallery of Modern Art, Pleiades Gallery, and the Golden Belt Art Studios in Durham, North Carolina, 523 East Franklin Street in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, the Orange County Historical Museum in Hillsborough, North Carolina, the Joyner Library at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, and Salisbury University Art Gallery in Salisbury, Maryland. It has also been shown at The Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston, MA) and Watershed Media Centre (Bristol, England). Many influences and affinities inform her visual work. Chief among them are Leonardo da Vinci’s observations on and experiments with water, atmosphere, optics, light & shadow, and motion; Spanish, Latin American, & LatinX baroque and neo-baroque aesthetics, Romanticism, American Luminism, Symbolism, and Surrealism.