Los Suplicantes
2000 Wood Engraving
12" x 9"
Edition: 58
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Copyright © Maria Arango, 2000
Block: End-grain maple
Ink: Umber/purple
Paper: Stonehenge Fawn
Process: Engraving
Image: This is an image done for a themed exchange:
Sacred Tree. When I was growing up in Spain, there were many legends and
stories passed down from generation to generation. As the story is told,
there was a terrible drought that left farmers working the dry fields without
hope for a crop. Some farmers kept working, but others gave up faith and
went to the fields only to beg God for mercy and rain. Angered by their
lack of faith, God turned the suplicants into trees and bound them forever
to the earth. It is said that the new trees shaded the crops and rewarded
those farmers that had worked through the drought.
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