A distinctive series in Austin Martin White’s body of work are his casta paintings. Casta paintings derive from 18th-century Spanish colonialism, which portrayed categories of class and race, specifically interracial family lineages. The system portrayed by the paintings, which typically consisted of separate panels displayed a hierarchy of individuals and peoples in direct linkage to their mixture of their razas. Consequently, it created and displayed a caste system that aimed to secure white superiority while at the same time imposing a social order in which specific ideals and values were assigned to different ethnic groups. White addresses this type of image production adopting the panel structure, yet abstracts their content by blurring the figures, leaving them unrecognizable and almost claiming a right to opacity as Édouard Glissant argued, through diverse layers of materials and expressive color schemes.