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flowersgal, Nov 23, 2022

Description:: Remembering

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On sale (SOSN 50% off) Nov 23:
Weathered Landscape No2: Country Roads by The Lilypad designer Lynn Grieveson (the-lilypad.com)
Also used but not on SOSN sale:
The Fun Begins templates by The Lilypad designer Lynn Grieveson (the-lilypad.com)

Journaling in the photo reads:
Remembering Migrants' Lives - Since 1998, over 8,000 migrants have been found dead on the U.S. southern border, according to the U.S. Border Patrol. Alvaro Enciso, a Columbian-born artist living in Tucson, volunteers with Tucson Samaritans, leaving water in remote parts of the Sonoran Desert to assist passing migrants. Since 2013, Enciso has planted over 1,200 crosses, marking sites where migrants have died in the desert. He makes each cross out of wood and decorates it with a red dot, the symbol of lost life on Humane Borders maps, as well as a scrap of something left behind by migrants, such as a bottle top or an aluminum can. Enciso says his art "brings attention to the nearly 4,000 people who have died in Southern Arizona while crossing the desert to find somewhere in the U.S. a piece of the American Dream."

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