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"He would say that every part of your body when you’re working the land and doing this work is graceful. When I do social justice work for farmworker rights, that’s what I’m thinking about. When I decided to organize instead of focusing more on art, my father was very disappointed. I told him, ‘I’m going to paint a different canvas. I’m going to try to make your canvases real.’ That’s the influence. I wouldn’t have had the vision to do it if it hadn’t been for him painting it.”

 —Rosalinda Guillén, farmworker advocate and executive director of Community-to-Community Development in Bellingham "WA farmworkers’ labor as seen through their art" | Crosscut https://crosscut.com/culture/2022/02/wa-farmworkers-labor-seen-through-their-art