In East Java, the waterfalls, mountains, and boulders there resurrected an affectionate memory from Galego’s childhood, of a massive boulder in Parque Nacional Peneda-Gerês in Northern Portugal. The awe that Galego experienced in Indonesia and Portugal, is a feeling many artists have harnessed to experience transcendence and wonder. Galego uses both nature and her relationships to other people as a source of awe. “Through these paintings, I tried to tackle that aspect of life which seems so important to me—that it can be alright not to understand each other fully, while tirelessly and hopefully still trying to do so.”