Nikki Yeager

It's a bad picture of this piece, and you can't see the detail, and it's off center, and the lighting is super funky, but you can get the gist.

It's one of my new ones and one of my faves. Why you ask? Because it's one of the pieces that needed to be done... my favorite kind of art. If I didn't put it down it would've burned me up inside.

Here's what the writing says

"A little more than 30 years ago my teacher was beaten with a stick under a hot Cambodian sun. A man in a red scarf and green hat smiled as he whipped her. She cried out, but the adults ignored her cries. He pulled her outside and raped her. 7 years old and she was torn apart by a man twice her age, all because she had already learned how to read. A month later her parents were suffocated with plastic bags. Her sister was repeatedly burned with hot rods and then executed and dumped into a pile of bloody, rotting corpses. My teacher was taught not to learn. She was beaten for understanding a few words of French. She watched 1/3 of her population die. Life went on. A little more than 30 years ago my teacher was taught to never teach. To never learn. How am I supposed to learn?"

Take it how you want to.

How it was made:

Thick chipboard for the background, homemade maroon paper cut to fit and adhered on top. The photo in the middle is mounted on another sheet of chipboard written on with black marker. Modeling paste outlines the photo and photo-board along with heavy duty ribbon.

A black plastic frame surrounds the painting (not shown here)

Buy it Now :

275.00 plastic frame, no glass