Somos como las nubes / We Are Like the Clouds

1. Las Chinamas and the Desert Book Cover

80cm x 80cm

Children walk along a road above a painting of other children sleeping in the desert.

Highest bid $ 1000

2. Somos como las nubes / We are like the Clouds

55cm x 33cm

A child floating through the sky amongst clouds shaped like animals.

Highest bid $ 500

3. Mi barrio / My neighbourhood

55cm x 33cm

A dog that can whistle, a cat that can dance, a rooster that looks in the mirror and other denizens of a magical realist neighbourhood.

Highest bid $ 500

4. El barrio la campanera / The Campanera neighbourhood

61cm x 38cm

The painted ones who make in the neighbourhood La Campanera impossible for children.

Highest bid $ 400

5. El palabrero / The Talker

17,5cm x 33cm

The boss who decides the fates of others.

Highest bid $ 250

6. iPod

17,5cm x 33cm

A boy waves goodbye to his friend who had to sell his iPod to pay to leave his home.

Highest bid $ 500

7. El camino / Children walking along the road as they leave their homeland for an unknown future

55cm x 33cm

Highest bid $ 500

8. Me dice mi papa / My Father Tells Me

55cm x 33cm

The train, known as La Bestia that people ride to go north.

Highest bid $ 150

9. Caballo de carrera / Racehorse

60cm x 30cm


A boy rides on his father’s back through a desert where others are walking.

Highest bid $ 300

10. Nos presentamos a la patrulla / We introduce ourselves to the Border Patrol

60cm x 30cm

Children explaining to the Border Patrol who they are and where they come from.

Highest bid $ 50

11. El santo Toribio

60cm x 30cm

Behind a border fence children hoping they will be okay.

Highest bid $ 100

12. Sueño / Dream

60cm x 30cm

A child sleeping and floating on a mattress dreaming that he has found his mother.

Highest bid $ 750

13. El vendedor de paletas / The Paleta Seller

41cm x 33cm

A street scene in the new safe home, buying paletas – a classic ice cream on a stick.

Highest bid $ 250