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Livestock, a collaboration between painter Arlene Amaler-Raviv and photographer Dale Yudelman, was created for the 8th Havana Biennale. The artists have produced eleven works printed on Hahnemuhle etching paper using archival pigment inks.
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 The black oil drips over this image, whilst the workers labor in search of oil. Once again contrast of the wealth of the oil industry and the workers’ desperate for their meager pay for survival. |
 She blows the horn of Africa in the centre of the image. Below her is the symbol of weath of the nation - the cattle - the labola, their currency. |
 The taxis - public transportation, the symbol of gold and the Lesotho blanket in the mid right of the image talk about Lesotho. |
 Traditionally self sufficient in agricultural production represented by woman grounding her maize. The image of the boys rowing makora and working upon the lake is a symbol of prosperity. The lake nurtures the nation as is the image of the woman above grinding the maize. |
 No more fish in the Sea in Mozambique.The politician and the children in the street. |
 Contrast of opulence of diamond mining and politicians, business men and workers and the Himba Woman. Very dry land, difficult to farm agriculturally, symbolized by the dead end road sign in centre of painting. |
 The Iconographic Jo’burg Man, who worked and built our city, the original, is superimposed onto the portait head of Jan Van Riebeck - founder of the cape of Good Hope . Joburg man celebrates South Africa , carrying his bag of red roses- (a commodity - tea in South Africa called Five Roses) |
 The proud African woman carrying her baby and her baggage on her head stands on the exquisitely painted crown over the head of the king of Swaziland. |
 Source of the Zambizi river - source of life. It is young country symbolized by a young African boy looking straight into viewers eyes. The fish eagle is the call of the wild in the wilderness. |
 Zimbabwe |
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