Woman pulling the trailer

Latex with acrylic on acetate, 29x23

Series: The dorna and the ones who live from it.

The isolation is particularly effective in the engravings of women and their children. The woman, dressed in black, mourning like so many other women in the fishing villages, is completely alone. We see her from behind an she is like any woman, se has no face or features, followed by her children, she stays away from us, and perhaps also from them. Her solitude is not softened by any landscape or the company of another woman; she is alone with her work and concerns, and in the engraving, her isolation is represented by the empty space.

Carol Maier.

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