Thank you for the note @aarp 🍓 Posted @withrepost • @aarp @NarsisoMartinez pays tribute to hands. It can take the artist a couple of days just to draw them. "Hands are universal and when it comes to farmworkers, it doesn't matter whose hands," says Narsiso. "They're going to be dirty, stained, tired, calloused." Narsiso, 45, grew up in a rural farming community in Oaxaca, Mexico. When he was 20, he immigrated to the United States, making his way to Southern California and surviving as a farmworker while he earned his GED. He continued his education at Los Angeles Community College, where he says his life changed forever after discovering the works of Van Gogh and Jean-François Millet in an art history class. He had never considered that ordinary people could be the subject of a work of art. To pay his way through school, Narsiso worked picking produce, seven days a week, 15 hours a day, for nine summers. “The hardest part of being a farmworker are the long hours and back breaking labor,” he says. “At the end of the day, sometimes you can’t even go to the bathroom.” At Cal State Long Beach, Narsiso honed his craft, creating mixed media installations juxtaposing portraits of farmworkers and agricultural landscapes against cardboard produce boxes. [...] @charliejamesgallery This year, Narsiso was part of a major exhibition at the @smithsoniannpg. Narsiso draws from his own experience, amplifying the unseen people who fill produce sections and restaurant kitchens around the country. “When you eat strawberries, you don’t think about the hands that picked them," he says." (1/2) 📸 by: @greggsegal #AARP #GenX #Artist #Mexico #California #Immigration #Immigrant #FarmWork #farmowrkers #essentialworkers #santacruzpapalutla #zapotec #oaxaca #generationx ✊🏾#strawberry #pickingcart by @artedeluis 🙏🏾