"We are afraid"
Mark Vallen 1987
Pencil on paper - 11 1/2" x 12"

Artist's statement:

"My drawing was a statement concerning the wars raging throughout Central America at the time. Children all over Central America were being killed by the thousands - infant mortality skyrocketed due to aerial bomb attack, mortar rounds, mines, and general gunfire. Thousands more were horribly maimed or crippled. The people of Central America, already some of the poorest in the hemisphere, were further impoverished by war when governments invested national resources into arms rather than vitally needed social structure like schools, hospitals, and housing. The children of Central America suffered the most, and it is to them that I dedicated my drawing."