digital painting documents men on their knees and conflicting interests

Spinach Harvest - Digital Painting - Dan Beck - 2005

I have already written about this piece and even featured the image more recently as illustration for one of the points on being creative.

I am featuring this digital painting again today because the spinach crews were harvesting again in the same field next to my house.

Not so much a full year cycle but a growing cycle - for the crops are in full swing here and the men who bunch spinach do so on their knees. They are experts and you can be assured this is what they do each day.

Growing food and working the land is probably the most grounded work that anyone could think of - but with markets, business, and making money - men are made into parts just like other aspects of our world.

I am sad we have built a world where people are treated like things - sad that money is like god - sad that with every image, I feel obligated to give options to buy art prints - sad there are so many conflicting interests.

See Also

• Figures Art Gallery
  The gallery with the most conceptual art - others which speak to the human condition
• Dean’s World - More Books
  a few “facorite” quotes