"In the garden of Mr Santos"
Production date
Circa 1997-Circa 1998
Description
Screen print exploring the issue of seed ownership by The Monsanto Company, an American multinational agricultural biotechnology corporation, and the controversy surrounding the practice of seed saving. Golden seeds are depicted on the right hand side of the print with black barcodes and numbers. The seeds are being blown across a bay. Near the centre of the image a figure is shown in the Mercury spacecraft. The figure is isolated and threatened by corporate forces. American symbolism, including a star and three stripes, features on a black curve of land. A meteor streaks across the sky on the left of the image and a boat is sinking in the bay. The print is rendered predominantly in yellows, reds, black, green and white.
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