48" x 36"
2016. 

The Vaquero de Paletas or “Cowboy of popsicles”  is a depiction of a migrant street vendor, but I wanted him to be dressed in not so typical attire. The more Mexican Cowboy attire is meant to hint that this is a man with other ambitions than selling paletas. Perhaps he really aspires to be singer in a Norteño Banda but when circumstances create a divide between what we wish to be and what we have to be…