{"id":2125,"date":"2022-06-22T18:03:24","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T01:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sweetandsourcitrus.mysites.io\/manos-espaldas-y-blossoms-in-the-groves\/"},"modified":"2023-06-01T20:13:52","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T03:13:52","slug":"manos-espaldas-y-blossoms-in-the-groves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sweetandsourcitrus.org\/es\/manos-espaldas-y-blossoms-in-the-groves\/","title":{"rendered":"Manos, Espaldas, y Blossoms In the Groves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Manos, Espaldas, y Blossoms <\/i>(Hands, Backs, and Flores<\/i>, 2017) es un proyecto de arte colaborativo del poeta Juan Delgado y del foto\u0301grafo Thomas McGovern que muestra a los trabajadores que cosechan ci\u0301tricos de las huertas del Parque Histo\u0301rico Estatal de Ci\u0301tricos de California. Los veinte foto-murales y \u2018los mensajes con poesi\u0301as\u2019 instalados a lo largo de los senderos del parque exponen lo que rara vez tomamos en cuenta cuando comemos una naranja o contemplamos las huertas: a la gente, que con sus manos trabajadoras han dejado su marca en la fruta y en el paisaje, y han llevado el peso de la agricultura industrial sobre sus espaldas. Los poemas y las fotografi\u0301as presentadas aqui\u0301 dignifican su labor. Los artistas tambie\u0301n au\u0301nan el pasado y el presente. Por ejemplo, las poesi\u0301as provienen de sus experiencias con los aromas y sonidos de las huertas, de las conversaciones con los trabajadores del campo, de historias orales de la regio\u0301n y de la publicacio\u0301n \u201cLecciones Sencillas en el Ingle\u0301s de todos los di\u0301as para los Trabajadores de Frutos Ci\u0301tricos\u201d del Mercado de Fruticultores de California (ma\u0301s tarde llamada Sunkist) de 1920. Este libro tambie\u0301n ensen\u0303aba ingle\u0301s a los lectores al entrenarlos en los pasos del cultivo y distribucio\u0301nde los ci\u0301tricos, desde la semilla hasta al mercado. En 1920 el trabajo de los inmigrantes,principalmente de Me\u0301xico y Asia y en menor nu\u0301mero de Europa del este y sudeste, era la columna vertebral de la industria. Antes y ahora los hombres recogi\u0301an la cosecha y las mujeres empacaban aunque en la actualidad las dos posiciones son realizadas principalmente por latino\/as.<\/p>\n

En Manos, Espaldas, y Blossoms <\/i>Delgado y McGovern hacen visibles estas capas de historia y memoria, especialmente la experiencia de los inmigrantes, lo cual es parte del paisaje ci\u0301trico que este parque ha decidido preservar.<\/p>\n

Men in Manos exhibition: Jose Luis Abargo, Tomas Aguilar, Marcel Aviles, Domingo Leonardo Clemente, Pedro Diaz, Urbano Garcia, Jose Guadalupe Gomez, Humberto Z. Hernandez, Wilver Hernandez, Israel Lopez, Jose Luis, Marcos R. Martinez, Carlos Quintana, Jeronimo Sanchez, Ubaldo Sierra, Humberto Uvzua, Jose Villagomez.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Juan Delgado and Thomas McGovern, Manos, Espaldas, y Blossoms <\/i>(2017)<\/p>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\t\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Twenty photomurals and trail markers installed along paths through the park, framed works on exhibit here, and a handmade chapbook of the poetry in the artwork comprise Manos, Espaldas, y Blossoms<\/i>. It features images of Latino pickers and Latina packinghouse workers integrated with lines of verse from varied sources: conversations with and among the men in the fields, interviews, snippets from the life stories of others from the region\u2019s past, and the visceral experiences of the artists in the groves.<\/p>\n

The project also draws from the structure of a 1920 publication, Easy Lessons in Everyday English for Citrus Fruit Workers<\/i>, by the California Fruit Growers Exchange (later called Sunkist). The textbook teaches the steps of citrus cultivation and distribution, from seed to market, as it trains immigrants to serve as a readily reproducible labor force. In 1920, immigrant labor was the backbone of the industry, largely from Mexico and Asia, with smaller numbers from Eastern and Southern Europe. Men picked and women packed\u2014then and now, though today both positions are held primarily by Latino\/as.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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With Manos, Espaldas, y Blossoms<\/i>, Delgado and McGovern render visible these layers of history and memory, particularly of the immigrant experience, that are part of the citrus landscape this park was established to preserve. They call our attention to the ways that human toil and handwork contrast both the gridded, symmetrical rows of fruit trees and the assembly-line efficiencies of packinghouse machinery. Most importantly, they invite us to experience the space and to consider our place in it.<\/p>\n

Credits<\/h2>\n

Manos, Espaldas y Blossoms <\/i>fue organizado por el Programa de Historia Pu\u0301blica de la Universidad de California, Riverside, como parte del Proyecto de Relevancia e Historia.<\/p>\n

El equipo del proyecto agradece la gentileza de los hombres retratados en Manos, Espaldas, y Blossoms<\/i>, asi\u0301 como tambie\u0301n a los artistas por haber creado estas obras especialmente para el Parque Histo\u0301rico Estatal de Ci\u0301tricos de California, y al Rancho Gless que supervisa las areas del parque cosechadas para uso comercial. Para ma\u0301s informacio\u0301n sobre los artistas, por favor visite juanandtom.com<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Poetry Posts<\/h2>\n

Around the Park, along the groves are ten poetry posts including photographs of citrus pickers and orange peels accompanied by lines of poetry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIf you let your hands be at ease, will you feel the weight of those citrus pickers?\u201d<\/p>\n\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/a>\n \n \n

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\u201cSettling into golden notes\u201d<\/p>\n\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/a>\n \n \n

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\u201cEnough to pluck two oranges and feed them to his sack’s wide mouth, stretching across his torso.\u201d<\/p>\n\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/a>\n \n \n

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\u201cStretching, the first step for a dream\u201d<\/p>\n\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/a>\n \n \n

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\u201cTienes que echar muchas ganas…una ganas se necesitat para trabajar.\u201d<\/p>\n\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/a>\n \n \n

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\u201cUncovering the innermost skin of a grove\u201d<\/p>\n\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/a>\n \n \n

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\u201cHis fuzzy glove darts through the drooping branches, parting them enough to pluck two oranges and feed them to his sack’s wide mouth, stretching across his torso. You feel the picker is gone on to the next tree, but he is beside you behind a curtain of quivering leaves.\u201d<\/p>\n\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/a>\n \n \n

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\u201cFeeling the absence of the fruit’s seeds\u201d<\/p>\n\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/a>\n \n \n

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\u201cUnfolding like a grove being irrigated by a canal once dug by hand.\u201d<\/p>\n\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/a>\n \n \n

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\u201cLearning from the unraveling\u201d<\/p>\n\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Trail Markers<\/h2>\n <\/div>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cSe no trabajas no hay nada…no ganas nada.\u201d<\/p>\n\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/a>\n \n \n

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\u201cIf you go deep enough into the groves, you hear the shuffling among the trees as if they had boots of their own, and hear the rustling o branches, and the fluttering if sharp, pointed leaves that never take to a green flight.\u201d<\/p>\n\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/a>\n \n \n

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\u201cA grove weighed down by oranges matches the wonder of faces.\u201d<\/p>\n\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/a>\n \n \n

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\u201cBag to Crate\u201d<\/p>\n\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/a>\n \n \n

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\u201cHe needs to fill 15 sacks to fill one crate. He needs to fill five crates in a day to keep up. Each sack weights 80 pounds.\u201d<\/p>\n\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/a>\n \n \n

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\u201c…he is beside you behind a curtain of quivering leaves\u201d<\/p>\n\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/a>\n \n \n

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\u201cA grove with traces of voices and their ladders.\u201d<\/p>\n\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweetandsourcitrus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweetandsourcitrus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweetandsourcitrus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweetandsourcitrus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweetandsourcitrus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sweetandsourcitrus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweetandsourcitrus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweetandsourcitrus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweetandsourcitrus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}