Sydney Dunmore, a Northern California native, is a free-handed artist who paints murals at schools and businesses.

A banana duct-taped to a wall first sold in 2019 for $120,000. It could fetch up to $1.5 million this week during a Sotheby’s auction.

Her figures are in a state of unrelenting grief about what it means to be human and to feel powerless about so much that happens to ourselves and others.