Title

Nos vamos

Subject

Landscapes

Description

A white notepad page drawn in green pen ink. No frames. Simple, hand-made drawings not interconnected and hand written text, rather seeming like sketch text and notes. Text reads: “In Potosí there is a mountain that guards the city”. Drawings of a woman and another human figure with a wolf's head, both of them dressed in a urban, young, hip, way (the woman wearing a striped French cap and low-heeled boots; both of them wearing jumpers and trousers). The woman has a thought bubble reading: “You can feel the altitude” (“Se siente la altura”). A handwritten note: “We walked a lot”. A mountain with the text: Cerro Rico (Mount Rich). Even though afterwards the Spanish pass by here, it should be called Mount Poor. “It’s cold”. A drawing of a man holding a cigarette in his lips, dressed as a miner, picking on a wall. A bag with leaves reads ”Coca” and a little flask reads “Pure alcohol”. "The miners live in the worst conditions. This time around I don't want to go see them. It's a kind of tourism that I can't stand". A drawing of a coca leaf. “We sourced coca leaves after walking around almost of all Potosí”. A drawing of a woman with two long braids, wearing a hat, shawl, skirt, carrying something on her back, wrapped in the shawl, resembling the Aymara women’s dressing style. Three speech bubbles coming out from the woman: “Go back to your country, you discusting people. Fuck” “You come to rob us and to beg. Go away”. “Beggars!” A text note reads: “A woman yelled at us while we were walking in the street”. Next to the woman, a drawing of a dog. Hand-written text: “There are many stray dogs”. A short-haired woman wearing trousers and a long-sleeved black shirt lying on the floor with her eyes open. Text notes with arrows pointing to different parts of her body: “I am congested.” “I burnt myself*” “* I burnt myself due to vanity. I was trying to wax my moustache”. “I have a bad stomach”. “My legs itch”.

Country

Colombia

Format

Comic

Creator

Power Paola (Paola Gaviria), 1977

Link to social media

Powerpaola: Instagram

Date

2016

Identifier

ISBN: 978-958-8568-57-7

Source

Power, P. (2016). ¡Nos vamos! La Silueta.

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