Gramcko stated that her aim during the early 1970s was to immerse herself in the cultural roots of Latin America through the study of its archaic civilizations. Using ceramics and casein plastic, the artist made a modern version of bas-reliefs, reinforcing her three-dimensional impulse, and projecting what would be her replacement for a non-funereal nineteenth-century academic sculpture. Gramcko decontextualized a non-Western ritual object by isolating it as an icon. The flat color backgrounds of “Untitled” (1973 and 1974)—both purple and red—bring the works back to her first experiments in abstraction with chromatic hues that exacerbate the spiritual quality of the figures.