An outlying theme in Arango's oeuvre, and in Colombian art of the era, it that it is seemingly more sensible to see her paintings within the context of literary production, as customary of women's culture in Colombia which accentuates captivity and confinement combined with the depiction of female mental illness and/or physical illness. In the painting Esquizofrenia, Arango also enters into an established international tradition of the visual representation of the female sufferers of mental disorders as well as the “hysterical woman”. The woman depicted in Esquizofrenia represents proximity and compression both through the way in which she almost fills the limits of the frame, and the way her body appears to be straining through the confines