Unocumented In Art

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The first artwork undocumented is a painting of someone or an undocumented Mexican since it is called undocumented and the color of his skin is brown caught in spiky barbwires. He seems to be bleeding and suffering at the same time trying to cross the border. It makes me remember and feel past struggles of how I used to get bullied back in middle school. These were my dark and gloomy times. It was a time where I had very low self-esteem and issues of accepting who I am. I like how the artist showed a numerous amount of splatter of blood by the Mexican neck and body. Furthermore, I like how the artist wrote undocumented in red. It almost looked like it was written in blood. It gives the horror feeling to it. I feel like if it was drawn without

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