Artist Statement: Imagine the landscape of the dustbowl's choking, desolate, colorless, void of optimism. This piece honors the Americans forced to flee their beloved farms and businesses and head west in the hopes of reconstructing a new life in the fertile valleys of California.

Materials & Techniques: Techniques hand-dyed and discharged cotton canvas, outline printed figure with appliqued dress, hand painted, transfer paper quotes Materials cotton canvas, procion dye, bleach, printing ink, acrylic paint, transfer paper, commercially printed fabric, cotton thread, cotton batting

Dimensions: 55 x 88 

Photographer: Ginnie Hebert