Antonio Alonso: Street Balloon SellerAnother beloved figure of Mexican street life takes shape in this papier mch sculpture by Antonio Alonso: the globero, the wandering balloon seller whose tall bouquet of color can be spotted from blocks away in any plaza or park. Once again, the role goes to a tlacuache, this time outfitted in a red shirt, blue trousers, and a small black coin pouch slung across his hip, ready for an afternoon of business. The opossum holds his pole with both paws,

Gaspar Calvo Fabián is from San Martín Tilcajete

Dimensions: 6

in the 1970s

Down the owl's back runs a narrow

Two white candles flank the image

and the Fundación Harp Helú

and the painting tradition he carries forward

two sacred forces necessary to balance and well-being

while the hooves flash hot pink

a powerful circular macaw motif wraps around the pot

The photography was conceived to match the subject's ambition

Antonio gathers the tenderness of a tradition that turns grief into welcome and memory into color