Arequipa, Peru
As our tour bus left Arequipa for the Andean highlands everyone else made a dash for the bodega to purchase aqua for the day ahead when I, camera on the ready, spotted this child entertaining himself with the lock and chain his parents had used just moments earlier to secure the metal gate of their shop. He seemed as confused by the intricacies of his newfound toy as by my desire to immortalize him in watercolor.

The Print: 10 x 15.5 image on an archival cotton rag.