Art for arts sake!!! a little commission I got to design a poster for an arts market!
Ars Gratia Artis
Author: alebarahona
Scarf Pattern – Rochen
Commission by Rochen, a silk scarfs brand that showcases guatemalan illustrators. For this project I chose to work around a very popular kids game in latin America, “El Trompo”… I remember my primary school days with this toy, fun times, when kids had no ipads and you spent all your spare time mastering games just to show off with your friends the next day. Those were the times!!!
Fuego label
Commissioned by Antigua Brewing Company to design their beer label “Fuego”. They did some apparel with it as well. Very cool to see my illustrations in different products.
The Birth of Gaia – Sao Paulo
Selected to participate in Graffiti Queens Festival in Sao Paulo, Brazil. This was a fun festival, the first all women Festival I participated in. Brazil had such a beautiful energy, I met so many nice, talented, women in this trip and the Festival had such a different vibe… working along women made me feel safe, empowered and gave me hope to whatever comes. I have no doubt that the future is female…we need more female role models, leaders… Our society need equilibrium and we will not reach it unless we work together to change the status quo… It is possible!!!
Collab with Mura
Size: 5 x 6mt
Year: 2019
United we are stronger
Commissioned community mural by the municipality of Torrefarrera, Spain. This mural was done on one of the public schools in Torrefarrera, we gave an introductory workshop to spray paint and painted the mural with around 20 children from the community, ages 8 to 18. Spray painting for kids is tough and you can see how the cans ended up above. The mural was a success though, the next day I could see kids coming with other friends and showing them what they had painted, they were so proud.
Size: 30mt x 3mt
Year: 2019
V8 HOSTEL – Guate
Mural painted for V8 Hotel in zone 4, Guatemala City. I was selected along other 20 Guatemalan muralists to decorate the rooms, halls, and common spaces of the new renovated hostel. It was very fun to go back to painting with acrylics and brushes on the wall, after you try spray paint you don’t want to switch back but once in a while it feels good to make lines slowly and paint bit by bit!!
Size: 2mt x 2.5 mt
Year: 2021
Technique: Acrylics
Alux – Festival Matices
Mural done for “Festival Matices”… A fully organized and accomplished festival by women for women in Guatemala. This has been one of my favorite festivals and the first one I have been involved from start to finish. I helped organized this festival with 10 other amazing and powerful women who not only love street art but are pro-women and want to change the way women are seen and treated in our country.
My piece for the festival was inspired in the Aluxes, it is said that the Alux are magical beings that protect the forest and it’s inhabitants. A legend from Guatemala that makes me dream and feel safe whenever in the forest or jungle and I wanted this part of the city to be protected with one of this magical beings.
Size: 9mt x 3 mt
Year: 2020
PIG BROTHERS
I was commissioned by Pig Brothers restaurant in Mixco, Guatemala to make a mural in their main dining area. They serve chicken, beef and pork so I did a trio of braniacs, one coming out of the other… I really liked the result of this one!
Size: 3mt x 5 mt
Year: 2020
Peace is the way – Peronia
Mural done as part of a project with the Collective “Niñas Furia” and “Jovenes contra la Violencia”. I love working with the community on murals and this was no exception. We painted a short wall on the main basketball court of a town called Peronia. This is a red zone in Guatemala so I decided to work on a design that talked about peace and community and so I chose a quote from Ghandi as the center… “There is no road towards peace, peace is the way”. We finished the mural in around 3 hours with the help of 20 women and children from the community.
Size: 24mt x 1 mt
Year: 2020
INRESA
Commissioned to paint a mural for INRESA, a company that sells photography and technology products. Their brief was to do something fun in tones of reds and greys which go with their logo so this is what I came up with… It was fun to do a double wall, paint outside the elevator and then inside!!!
