Quincy...
Series: «Workers», Acrylic on canvas, 50 × 50 cm (19.69 × 19.69 in), 2007...
During my stay in the city of Quincy, two hours from Seattle and two hours from Canada, I found a city made up of a small percentage of American plantation owners and almost 80% of Mexican illegal plantation workers. In this case, it was a woman covered with a balaclava that served a double function, to protect her face and head from the intense cold of the area, and to hide the fact that she was a woman. I asked her permission to take a photo, explaining why, and she flatly refused, "No, please, I have enough to do being a woman and having to do a manʼs job." I painted her from memory.
