Source: WTL digital photo© of canvas in "Imagining of Place" art exhibition at Santa Fe College, 2009.
Permission: Nereida García Ferraz's email to WTL March 2, 2009.
Image: "From Family," mixed media on paper, 40" x 62". In the show this large work was placed on the far end of the right wall, three works to the left of the Work Series--24 Drawings.
Comment: The photographer-professor has "curated" this digital version of García Ferraz's self-curated exhibition by using a more or less thematic sequencing of the works. However, he will attempt to describe the original placement of the canvases to better contextualize the artist's original intentions.
Humanities Questions: (A) Who do you imagine the nine figures in this painting represent? (B) If you see a focal point figure, describe its distinguishing features. (C) What is the relationship between the figures and the background? (D) Where do you think these figure may come from? (E) Why that particular place? (F) What social class do they probably come from? (G) Compare and contrast the adult figures from the non-adult figures? (G) What kind of attitude does this work communicate to you about what is depicted in this work, which is titled "From Family"?