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Image Not Available for A mighty mass of foam wept, a net no less wet and sticky claimed each speck of labor for another speck, broke them off her country's sweat so did she squatted on tight thighs, to beat out her horrid task, one at dark and the other by sight when colonial powers swung high a undignified humanity reigned no less till all was free to name
A mighty mass of foam wept, a net no less wet and sticky claimed each speck of labor for another speck, broke them off her country's sweat so did she squatted on tight thighs, to beat out her horrid task, one at dark and the other by sight when colonial powers swung high a undignified humanity reigned no less till all was free to name
Image Not Available for A mighty mass of foam wept, a net no less wet and sticky claimed each speck of labor for another speck, broke them off her country's sweat so did she squatted on tight thighs, to beat out her horrid task, one at dark and the other by sight when colonial powers swung high a undignified humanity reigned no less till all was free to name
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A mighty mass of foam wept, a net no less wet and sticky claimed each speck of labor for another speck, broke them off her country's sweat so did she squatted on tight thighs, to beat out her horrid task, one at dark and the other by sight when colonial powers swung high a undignified humanity reigned no less till all was free to name

Date2011
Artist (Indian, born 1963)
CultureIndian
MediumLithograph on paper, Edition of 75 (#1/75)
DimensionsOverall: 39 3/8 × 27 1/8 in. (100 × 68.9 cm)
Credit LinePurchase
Period21st c
Classification(s)
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