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