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Ornamentals can be dangerous to your health!
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About this painting:
Title: Las amapolas y las rejas
Trad: The poppies and the bars
Watercolour, 22”x 26”
c. Linnitt duFlon 1993
The
country that I live in is largely known as an agricultural country.
Among some of its more well known exports are coffee, sugar, fruit, roses,
beans, corn, and cardamom. It also has the kind of climate that is
just ideal for the cultivation of marijuana and… poppies!
So,
when some imaginative people from another country realized that, they came
around and encouraged some of these poor indigenous indians who love to grow
things and are entirely underpaid for their crops, to grow fields of
beautiful flowers for at least four times the amount of money they get paid
for their corn. Of course they jumped at the chance! These new
buyers even gave them the seeds!!! Remember, they thought they were
just growing flowers.
This
went on for years and the flowers were shipped back to another country,
processed, and made into heroin. But the indians were happy farmers,
because they grew pretty flowers for a very decent amount of money.
As
all good things must come to an end---the fields were discovered and burned
to the ground, the indians were mostly killed, although a lucky few ended up
in prison. The growing of poppies is banned entirely and even my last
five plants were killed… hence the five flowers in the painting, and the
bars which have nasty little points. Another hidden message… well
that’s about heroine!
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