 When she began to feel limited, she notified them that it was time for her to create her own art and departed from the Con Safo art group.Vargas wanted to experiment with the medium and create her own photographic style.A few years later, while working on a documentary project about yard shrines in her home town of San Antonio, Texas, she began researching Mexican and pre-Columbian myths and literature, and to produce works based on a photographic 'magic realism' involving layering by multiple exposure and hand colouring (Marshall).