Beatriz Mejia-Krumbein
SEBRING, FL
My life experience taught me and my constant observation of people in their environment allows me to use art as a tool to communicate about the human condition
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Painter’s book, 1998, 18 pp, 55 x 40 cm (w x h), 3 kg
9 woodcuts on rice paper by Beatriz Mejia-Krumbein
Handwritten. Text inSpanish and English.
Paper maché on burlap.
Cover: Pasteboard covered with paper maché.
The woodcuts and poetry denounce the children’s exploitation as workers in the
Coalmines in Colombia, and in many other parts of the world.
Low wages maintain the coal-mine-workers in poverty. Their children do not attend school because they need to work along their parents to contribute to the family budget. This situation is perpetuated through generations.
Are these children buried alive? The book is black, rich in texture, resembling the interior of the coalmines. Children faces emerge from the
darkness.
Each page presents stanza of the poem.
- Subject Matter: Social issues, children neglect.
- Inventory Number: B. 03
- Current Location: Beatriz Mejia-Krumbein- Art inventory
- Collections: Book Art
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