This is the second in a series of posters by Paul Mirocha promoting Sabores Sin Fronteras / Flavors without Borders, a series of bilingual, multi-cultural events whose aim is to educate and celebrate local foods of the Southwest, unimpeded by local political issues and surveyors markers.

Paul visited a tiny mom and pop tortilla factory to get the material for this painting, and spent several hours listening as they showed him all the steps involved in creating a good hand-made tortilla.

“Would it matter that the tortillas were also made from a revival of the original variety of wheat also brought by the Spanish? I would not think about it much on an empty stomach,” muses Paul. “I used the mom as the model, and added the apron and t-shirt to give a feeling for the irrelevance of nationalities and borders when it comes to food.”