Sun Mad by Ester Hernandez is a screeprint created in 1982. It stands to bring awareness to water contamination by pesticides and how it effects the environement, the farm workers, and those who consume. Hernandez created this image out of her anger of the loss of humans and environment of using pesticides within growing grapes in California.
Ester Hernandez is a visual artists known for her art work of latina and native women. Her work includes social, political, ecological and spirtual themes. Hernandez is considered to be an important figure within the Chicano civil rights movement of American in the 1960s.
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Graphic Design Spring '22 
Hello Kristina! Ester did an amazing job with this screen print. I love how she used a familiar raisin brand that is recognizable even just by colors and shapes. The imagery of replacing the lady that is usually on the Sun Maid box with a skeleton is very dramatic and powerful. She took everything Sun Maid was trying to convey with their marketing and threw it out the window. It looks as if she drew the skeleton/fruit basket part by hand with colored pencil and paper and then scanned it. I really like Ester’s screen print called “A WELL LIVED HOUSE”. She is great with conveying messages with few words. Great post Kristina! -Ivanah Alexandre
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