In 1992 the silk-screen poster "Exceso de Identidad" by Rebeca Méndez was part of an international invitational collection of forty posters commissioned by the second International Biennial of the Poster, held in Mexico City, under the theme "America Now, 500 years later.' Her poster explores identity issues, and features her own torso which represents the individual in both its strength and its vulnerability. Méndez attempted to dilute the celebration of Columbus's so-called "conquest" of the New World by reducing his ship to a decorative wallpaper element; the faint silhouette of the poodle serves as an example of how species ownership limits, traps and distorts identity.