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Twenty 8 inch X 10 inch scratchboard drawings, 1986-7, based on
testimony of Salvadoran refugees from a civil war in their
country, 1980-1992.
Twenty 8 inch X 10 inch scratchboard drawings, 1986-7, based on
testimony of Salvadoran refugees from a civil war in their
country, 1980-1992.
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"I can't tell you the very worst."
"'The rich and the poor have something in
common: both were created by the Lord.'
Proverbs 22:2"
"Dirty Communists!"
"My friends! But those who bury the dead
also die"
"Go get help, this one's still alive!"
"Sure, I enlisted, in spite of my scruples,
but gosh, Ma, I'm sick and tired
of being hungry!
" Bring the heads along, so
they can't be identified."
" Electric knives are so quick,
and easy to carry!"
Standard Operating Procedure.
"You're making up these tales to scare me...
aren't you?"
Civil War.
"¡%#$@¡ I ought to have realized
that we [the poor]
are the enemy."
Ayyyyyyyyyy!
"Who will give me this day
my daily bread?"
Another Nightmare.
"I can't kill anymore,
not with Maria on the list..."
The Hunter becomes The Hunted.
Making a run for it.
"Guardian Angel, sweet companion, neither abandon me by night or by day.
Four corners hath my bed, four angels
to take care of me, Jesus Christ at my head.
If I sleep, they care for me; if I die,
they watch over me with
the eleven thousand candles illuminate
the most holy sacrement of the altar.
Amen, Jesus, Mary and Joseph.
Guardian Angel..."
When
I showed refugees my drawings based on what they told me, they remembered
incidents still more bizarre and painful, suggesting the title for the
series.
"Then Moses says,
'And He told me that He would
free us from the sufferings in Egypt.'"
The Terror has lost its terror.
(This is based on a photo of an
actual incident, taken by a friend).