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The Story of The Ruins Boots: A New Sculpture by Helga Maribel Sanchez

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May 17, 2023
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The Ruins Podcast #15 with Helga Maribel Sanchez

The left boot is The Miner. The right boot is The Soldier (from the perspective of the viewer)

A Miner and A Soldier: Parallelism and Correlation

Take the time to read Maribel’s artist statement below, which is really a poem. It’s not often that artist statements hit exactly the right emotion for the work they aim to describe. This is one of those rare ones.

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