Artist : Carlos Zapata
Title : Trail of Tears
Medium : polychrome carved wood and glass eyes
Size : 90 H x 40 W x 42 D cm


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‘The Trail of Tears’ was part of a series of forced relocations of approximately 100,000 Native Americans between 1830 and 1850 by the US Government also known as the Indian removal. What was left of the different nations including theCherokee, Muscogee, Seminole, Chickasaw and Choctaw were forcibly removed and made to turn their backs on theirancestral land. These groups would suffer from exposure, disease and ultimately starvation as they were forced to walk toan Indian reservation 3000 miles away. Some 20.000 died before they could reach their final destination, succumbing toillness or the brutality of the military herding them as they walked. Today, forced immigration is still an ongoing problemthat occurs globally, as well as the effects of economic poverty, natural disasters, politics and mass developmental projects. Immigration by groups is as old as the human history.

Carlos Zapata makes idiosyncratic carved and painted sculpture and installation. His work deals with many challenging and potent themes from poverty, conflict, religion and race, yet paradoxically, the overriding characteristics of the work are of empathy and compassion. Zapata’s work belongs to and takes inspiration from Folk and Tribal Artforms from all over the world but specifically from South America, from its indigenous populace and the trade routes and traditions that have fed it over the centuries. Many of his sculptures have evolved from personal experience of living in a foreign land and from his home country where civil issues continue to trouble its people. Zapata is a Colombian artist. He currently lives and works near Falmouth in Cornwall, UK. He has exhibited internationally with works held in numerous private and museum collections around the world.



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