An imagination of the Pacific Ocean collapsed into a scale that fits in one’s hand, "Lupain" is Bello’s attempt to close the gap between her living in North America and her daughter, Kai, and other family members living in the Philippines across that ocean. Unable to travel back to her home country for a long time after immigrating to the U.S., Bello saw the ocean as an impediment.

The hands holding the ocean’s waters belong to her daughters, Sophia, Kai, and Kamilla. They are paired, from top to bottom, with images of the tree outside the artist’s studio at Sitka Center for Art and Ecology in Oregon where she stood on the beach every day during her residency in February 2024 to look across the Pacific Ocean toward the black sand of Davao, her hometown in the Philippines; and the tree behind her mother’s house in Nevada.