bettina fine art / witty and provocative folk art paintings

the brush stroke winter 2026

Dawn at the Depot

This painting is the first in a border wall series I am working on. The plight of the working immigrants is depicted through four times of the day - dawn, noon, dusk and midnight. I spent two days at the border wall in Naco, Arizona to photograph it during these times of day. It was quite an experience to be there and feel the emotional impact of the actual wall and what it represents. Dawn is showing the day laborers who arrive in the Home Depot parking lots to be picked up for construction jobs. Ice has targeted these locations in order to round up illegals, majority of whom are not criminals, just hard working people. Los Angeles is feeling the financial implications of these deportations in the labor needed to rebuild after the recent fires is not available. We are robbing ourselves of valuable workers as well as breaking up families. I will be continuing this story with the additional paintings

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