This 20" x 30" oil on canvas depicts one of the growing number of immigrant women in the deportee dining room in Nogales, Mexico. She has tried to run to higher ground (the north)...she was not successful this time...but she will probably keep trying because life depends on it. Today I heard a discussion of the salvific power of myth and folklore in people groups. Specifically, when people pass on descriptions of what happens and what to do in the event of natural disasters, they are passing on life saving information. In the case of a tsunami, certain coastal dwelling people groups know that when the sea rushes out, run for higher ground. If you are tempted to remain, or even spend time inspecting the new landscape, you will perish. In 'economic tsunamis', when jobs, land and food are swept away, people need to get to safe ground.
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