This 16" x 20" oil on canvas is another 'portrait' of an immigrant who blends into the landscape. I am using a 'gridded out' way of approaching the subject matter to think about the disjointed and disconnected way that immigration is being approached in this country. For one thing, individual states claiming frustration with the federal government's inaction have enacted their own particular laws to address a nationwide situation. Alabama has enacted Draconian laws that have caused undocumented immigrants to withdraw their children from school, flee the state and leave crops rotting in the fields. The governor of Alabama says that he believes his new law will put his roughly 10% unemployed Alabamans back to work. Unfortunately the unemployed "documented" U.S. citizens have declined the arduous, backbreaking labor...hence the crops are rotting in the fields, the price of all produce goes up...food is more expensive for the employed, the unemployed, the documented and undocumented. Oh and all those little kids are not getting an education...disconnect.
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