El Salvador has a volcano called the Lighthouse of the Pacific.
For over a century, sailors navigating the Pacific used the constant glow of Volcán de Izalco to find their way. It erupted almost continuously from 1770 until 1966 — then went silent, just as tourists arrived hoping to see it.
Ana María Martínez saw something else in it entirely.
In 1987 she painted Izalco not as fire and destruction, but as an explosion of flowers — hundreds of them, bursting upward from the crater into the sky, as if the volcano's energy had transformed into pure life.
That is how she saw El Salvador. That is how she painted it.