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Sketch / Esbozo

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 No title -  ink on paper and digital technique, 21x30cm,  2020 Two junkies sunbathing leaning against the window of a jewelry store -perfect synecdoche  of this city- and pretty girls heeling their way  down the stairs of the subway at nine in the morning zigzagging between Peruvians clutching their shadows. Crestfallen men of clay smearing  of dirt to delicious busy women, sad men and freshly showered women, clean, goddesses. My troubles  never have women's names anymore, they have the names of big companies electricity suppliers or gas providers. Women in the subway. The younger ones protect their red faces on the pages of political propaganda; it's not blushing  it has nothing to do with fleeting and frightened glances they are just exhausted;   it has nothing to do  with sex, it's nine o'clock in the morning they're clean, but it's just water. There's hardly any time left  for make-up or dreams. Raymond Chandler is dead, I hear them say and then the scr