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Date: 1962

Size: 208 x 208 cm

Technique: Silkscreen

In tones of dark sepia and coffee brown against a silvery-white background, a rectangular image taken from a photograph is repeated to make a grid with five across and eight rows in this square silkscreen painting. The repeated images are indistinct and grainy, though some are clearer than others. The image shows three men, four women, and a baby gathered in front of what could be a farmhouse. Shown from the knees up, the people appear to have light skin and most of them smile. The women wear dresses and one man, to our right, wears a brimmed hat. The sky above them is marked with fine, parallel, curving lines, reminiscent of fingerprint whorls.

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