SWD 8

Jesus Piedra Ibarra, un desaparecido

The anti-immigrant American terrorists who hunt and murder undocumented people trying to cros the Mexican- American border won’t have to shoot Jesus, as he was illegally arrested and executed by the the Mexican police or military in 1975.  Homage to Jesus Piedra Ibarra, un desaparecido, a 20 year old medical student who vanished in Monterrey, April 18, 1975.

 Art: 2007
Media: Ink, colored pencil, gouache, old-wrapping paper.
Two drawings, each framed:
The face, 14 inches H x 17 W. Framed: 23.5 inches H x 27 W.
The eyes, 5.5 inches H x 23 5/8 W. Framed: 10 inches H x 28 W

The photo used for source material for the drawing inspiration is seen in the book Fuerte Es El Silencio; authored by Elena Poniatowska.
(Pub. by Ediciones Era, S.A., Mexico, D.F., first edition, 1980; fourth edition, 1982)

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This text appears below the photo: Jesus Piedra Ibarra, joven estudiante de medicina, desaparecido el 18 de abril de 1975 en Monterrey, a los veinte anos. (JPI, age 20, a young student of medicine, disappeared on April 18, 1975 in Monterrey).

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Some of the background images in my drawing were inspired by a 35-cent paperback book that my late father had owned, titled Spanish Through Pictures, published in 1953.