Esteban del Valle is a Brooklyn, NY based interdisciplinary artist originally from Chicago, IL. He received his M.F.A. from RISD and has exhibited his work and produced murals internationally.

Sydney, sensing that Kendra’s small, fractured family was a sensitive subject, would sneak into Kendra’s room to look at the raggedy, over-stuffed photograph albums that her grandmother stowed away under her bed.

It had been three years to the day since she started chemo. I remembered how the lace wig she ordered online from Light in the Box didn’t fit. She had her mother re-tailor it.

She sipped from her cup of cafecito, resisting the urge to smack this pendejita who was more upset about a letter than her husband being a daily piece of basura.

Study of Vinzula, acrylic painting by Lisa Teasley.