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Consuelo Jimenez Underwood American, b. 1949
Border Platicas with Flowers Listening, 2024Acrylic paint and permanent marker on heavy canvas23 x 32 in
58.4 x 81.3 cmIn 'Border Platicas with Flowers Listening,' the artist uses acrylic paint and a permanent marker on an unstretched canvas to illustrate a Mesoamerican-styled narrative that connects two similar figures by...In "Border Platicas with Flowers Listening," the artist uses acrylic paint and a permanent marker on an unstretched canvas to illustrate a Mesoamerican-styled narrative that connects two similar figures by a circular trail of footsteps overlayed by opaque imagery of flowers of the border states between the USA and Mexico, and barbed wire. “Border platicas” roughly translates to “border talks” and suggests the figures represent people or leaders of different places conversing across the barbed division.
