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. Part of her tapestry series, Latine/x Farmworkers in the US, the artist explains that it is important to highlight “the extreme physical labor and hardship demanded by industrial agricultural systems, contrasted against the poetic life cycle of the crops themselves.” Puerta 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.