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Julia y su Hermana - 2005 - 12" x 15" acrylic gouache on panel
I (and two feral dogs) witnessed this while living in a Mexican fishing village on the Sonoran coast of
the Sea of Cortés. Usually, in that town, when a bereaved family was carrying their dead to the cemetery, friends
and neighbors fell in with the procession and sometimes made quite a crowd. These two women were both
well-known prostitutes. They must have serviced most of the fishermen in the town, but no one came to be there for
them (it was just another dead bastard baby). Julia walks behind her grieving sister, angry and defiant. Undoubtedly
she was a violent, knife-fighting, drug-taking, thieving, "mala mujer", but she had a core of pride that I somehow
admired (from a safe distance).
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