Mano de Obra Campesina [Hand of the peasant laborer]

Mano de Obra Campesina [Hand of the peasant laborer]

AAT:
migrant workers
mural paintings (visual works)
street art;
three-dimensional

LCSH:
Mural painting and decoration, American--Michigan--Detroit--21st Century.
Mexican Americans--Michigan--Detroit.
Mexican American farmers.
Spanish Americans (Latin America).
Hispanic Americans.

Mural painted on the side of a building featuring the upper body of an elderly man painted in a 3-D perspective against a backdrop with a cloudy blue sky and green field. He is wearing a woven sunhat, pink bandana, and white shirt. He is holding a shucked ear of corn in his right hand and his left hand is reaches forward dropping the corn leaves and is strongly foreshortened and projects into the viewers space. There are silver rings on the middle and ring finger of his left hand. "Dasic" is painted in cursive in black at the bottom right corner; it is underlined and bracketed by black dots. Underneath that, in black, is the website "dasicfernandez.com" in all capital letters. Parts of the website text have faded off and are almost unreadable.

Dasic Fernández

Created: 2010
Photographed: 2023-8-18

Dasic Fernández holds the copyright for this painting. All rights reserved.

Materials: Acrylic paint on brick

Still Image

DMM_2022_00160

Title and early image taken from artist's Flickr account: https://www.flickr.com/photos/dasic/with/5315539438

Address: 6020 Vernor Hwy, Detroit, MI 48209
Coordinates: 42.31617536007732, -83.10633565182997