Oil on Canvas – 24” x 28”
August 2016
For the Wayuu tribe of the vast desert region of La Guajira in Northeast Colombia, Pulowi is the female god of wind and destruction. The true destruction of the region, where thousands of Wayuu children die of malnutrition, is drought caused by global warming, and a massive coal mine called Cerrejon which has dammed the principal rivers of the region and caused horrible pollution to the remaining waters that do flow into the communities.
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