Cumpleaños, 2022, Animation

Birthdays were bittersweet for a 9-year-old boy in Oaxaca. I remember my tia passing me the phone as I lit the candle on top of my gansito just in time to hear my parents singing Las Mañanitas to me.

Telefono, 2022, Animation

As a kid, walking past pay phones reminded me of my parents. When they migrated, they used to call me through a pay phone and all I could think about was how our words flew across the sky and into each other’s receivers.