"I created the Latine/x Farmworkers in the US Tapestries Series (2017) which highlighted the extreme physical labor and hardship demanded by industrial agricultural systems, contrasted against the poetic life cycle of the crops themselves." - Lina Puerta.
In her works Crop Laborer-Green and Untitled (Woman/Red), Lina Puerta blends aesthetics with advocacy, pushing the conversation of land, labor, and resources forward. The artist places the farm workers center stage in both of her narrative scenes, highlighting the hands that are at the hub of our Western food system, honoring their connection to the land and the wisdom they inherit from it.