El Agricultor
Pilar G. Diaz-Sierra
Refran: "The vegetables from the soil are from the toil of the humble hands that picked it for you."
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Student Biography: My name is Pilar Diaz. I was born in Santa Maria and have lived here the whole day. In my free time I like to spend time with my steer and either watch movies or true crime stories. After I graduate high school, I hope to attend Chico State or Texas A&M to major in pre-veterinary. El Agricultor is about the justice of field workers. To dissect my art, I painted the man with brown skin to reflect the tan that hispanic people have, especially because they work in the sun daily. For his clothes the man is wearing a flannel, but it’s covered with an apron because farm workers wear them to protect themselves from any splashes or to minimize the amount of dirt on their clothes. The sources where I got my information from affected my artwork because I decided to draw a man with a world on his back after I read that farm workers are the people carrying the production of produce on their back. I chose to name my loteria card “El Agricultor” because the name is supposed to represent the type of person that is carrying the agriculture industry on his back. Even though it’s a man in the painting it’s supposed to represent both men and women’s injustice in their line of work.
Grade: 12
Card Number: 19