For their featured series, Mediums of Hope, Soto worked with a team of costume designers, makeup and nail artists, hair and clothing stylists, jewelry artists, and models to create intricate, staged photographic scenes that mimic or draw inspiration from well-known art historical works, such as Sandro Botticelli’s (1445-1510) The Birth of Venus. Their images draw from iconography related to QTBIPOC (queer, trans, Black, and Indigenous people of color) communities, as well as music, film, art, and religious expression commonly associated with Mexican and Latinx culture. These works create dialogue between the classical and the contemporary and challenge the art historical canon by centering queer people, trans people, and people of color.