This “Metro Vida” lifestyle is what Sosa’s art is all about. Wall sculptures and digital paintings with a Latin “flava,” cultural connections, and interesting stories produced with the quality and attention to detail from a seasoned professional. Much of the imagery used in this art form has traditionally existed in a folkloric, traditional expression. However, in this work, Sosa is trying to deliver a more contemporary, cultural approach suitable for a more sophisticated multi-cultural audience. The use of materials in this body of work is also unusual—i.e. the use of wood or acrylic to express an art form that traditionally is made from very lightweight paper (paper picado, for example).

Sosa brings together important aspects of his world to express his ideas about the complexity and uniqueness of the multicultural environments in which we live. The work celebrates this through hand-drawn and digital imagery, texture, color, pattern and layers. Much of the visual vocabulary applied to this work is also a direct result of Carlos’ interaction with urban art from his childhood in the Bronx and 1960s-70s television and comics. Art has always told stories to Sosa, and his goal is to pass those and new narratives to his children and his audiences. 

His mission is to help the viewer reflect on and to celebrate the many layers of traditions, and the price that it sometimes costs families and cultures to maintain and communicate those traditions.