Ediciones Vigía (cover designer, illustrator, and calligrapher: Rolando Estévez, editor: Laura Ruiz, author: Mae Roque), "La Ronda," date unknown. Hand-illuminated artist's book, mixed recycled papers.

Rolando Estévez's provocative cover design for "La Ronda" features a bold visual metaphor that merges everyday clothing with implicit violence and sexuality. The composition depicts a pair of purple jeans rendered in meticulous crosshatch pen work, with detailed stitching, pockets, belt loops, and a prominent belt buckle. Tucked into the back pocket is a handgun drawn in black and brown, its barrel extending diagonally across the fabric. The title "LA RONDA" appears vertically along the left side in deep purple block letters on a white paper strip. The jeans are mounted on kraft cardboard backing, creating dimensional layering. Throughout the book's interior, Estévez varies this imagery—showing the jeans from behind on vibrant blue paper, depicting a female torso with purple corset-style lacing down the spine, and repeating the motif in different color combinations and perspectives.

Mae Roque (pseudonym of poet and narrator whose real identity is not revealed in the book) has published several works including "Yo, Safa...," "Poemas para entretener al loco," "La hija del tabernero," "Imagen y Semejanza," and "Aguas muertas." In her biographical statement, she explains that upon reading these verses, certainty emerges—the poet has achieved verse (achieved seeing). This highly cited gaze that every poetry maker must carry brings not a horizontal perspective but a circular one that turns around itself, representing her alterities unified in one book that circles the self to decenter it, possess it, see it, and see herself from afar in all the women who have been and who will be.

Published by Ediciones Vigía as part of their "Colección del San Juan" series, this edition consists of 200 hand-manufactured and hand-illuminated copies using recycled textiles and industrial papers of diverse colors, textures, and weights. The production team—Estela Ación, Ibis Arias, Iosmey Barbier, Ana María Coto, Álida Fernández, José R. Guevara, Leticia Hernández, Lissette Martínez, Gladys Mederos, Agustina Ponce, Maricel Ruiz, Laura Ruiz, and Abilia Tellería—worked collaboratively at the Taller Editorial in Matanzas. "La Ronda" (The Round/The Patrol) explores themes of female embodiment, surveillance, violence, and the circular nature of women's experience through Estévez's recurring visual motif of jeans that simultaneously suggests everyday wear, sexualization, and the threat of violence—transforming utilitarian clothing into a canvas for exploring power, vulnerability, and feminist consciousness.