Sublease
2011
Gouache on paper
12" x 18"
This acronym, "Sublease" suggested to me the idea that the land of a region or country would be monetized somehow through complex arrangements outside of any purpose that would benefit the people who actually lived on it. I chose to suggest here that Europeans had "stolen" or destroyed the ungulates or hoofed animals native to Sudan decades ago and that, even though it is too late to prevent that now, it is a lesson in understanding how extraction economics leaves a country or region barren in the end.
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