Photographs by Dick Evans
The Llorona mural is located at the site of Juana Alicia’s 1983 mural project, Las Lechugueras (The Women Lettuce Workers), which depicts farmworkers and their battles against working conditions and pesticide poisoning in California. Given a 90-day warning in 2001 that the mural would be destroyed because of water damage to the wall, Juana Alicia developed the La Llorona project to pick up where Las Lechugueras left off.
With La Llorona, Juana Alicia engages environmental struggles involving women around the world, foregrounding the classic Mexican myth of the woman who allegedly drowned her children and is damned to weep for them.
Source: www.juanaalicia.com