Making Cents: Life Below the Bottom Rung
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Saturday August 29, 2009 12:46
by Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin - Ealaíontóir - Artist
caoimhghin at yahoo dot com
Full series of five paintings with new painting Garment Factory, India
A series of five large oil paintings examining the daily existence of people making a living in the worst working conditions in the global economy.
Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals fierce conflicts of interest (sometimes exploding, most often repressed) between conquerors and conquered, masters and slaves, capitalists and workers, dominators and dominated in race and sex. And in such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners.
A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn
SOLDERING CIRCUIT BOARDS Toy factory Shantou, Guangdong, China / Oil on canvas 150cm x 150cm / 59.1 in x 59.1 in
PHONE RECYCLING Mumbai, India / Oil on canvas 150cm x 150cm / 59.1 in x 59.1 in
RUBBISH DUMP RECYCLING Phnom Penh, Cambodia / Oil on canvas 150cm x 150cm / 59.1 in x 59.1 in
SHIP DISMANTLING, Alang Shipyard, India / Oil on canvas 150cm x 150cm / 59.1 in x 59.1 in