My name is Celia Alvarez Muñoz, the artist that made these works. I'm going to talk to you about how they came about.

So I grew up with pictures and words. It is no wonder then that when I began my art career, it was with an art form called artist books. Thus the paintings hanging here look like two big pages out of a book. These two are just part of a big project called Postales. Like picture postcards that people mail to friends when they travel, and they write, "Wish you were here!" There are nine scrolls and six houses, plus the street signs to the project. The street signs are the encounters of the two dominate languages spoken here, English and Spanish. The Spanish names as mispronounced by the English speakers, and the English names as mispronounced by the Spanish speakers.

Secondly, the inspirational story behind them, is a true story that happened in 1964, about a one hundred year border dispute between Mexico and the US. here in El Paso, the pass of the north.