Old photo of a worker picking cotton, a small vial of sweat and worn bandanna. 

The final piece in the series, though I am working on a few other related pieces.  Thought I would finish up posting these pieces as I am moving and will be sweating quite a bit today myself.

Thistles (or a thistle like species) springing up to frame and threaten the harvest being stacked in the old photo.

A famer plowing the field in a old photograph is surrounded by layers of thorns.

“we see the vivid juxtaposition of thorns surrounding a photograph of a farmer plowing behind a horse. Sharp thorns threaten the framer’s actions and seem to hem him in from all sides, alluding to the difficulty of working the earth.”