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"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."
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