Word: balkã
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...Balk??s etchings are stark and striking, reflecting the crudely innocent style of the women’s drawings. Her themes are also merciless in their truth and unrelenting in their exposure of cruelty. There is “Send Them Home to Die,” done in etching, aquatint, and softground, in which women with broken bodies walk single-file down a hill, perhaps to death, perhaps to hell. But their lives are already a sort of hell...
...nowhere is this attitude more apparent than in Balk??s photographs of the women themselves. Balk completed the series on a trip to the village of Kot Goan in the district of Gorkha. Done in black and white prints, the photographs are intimate and gripping, with a distinctly documentary feel that manages not to alienate the viewer or the subject...
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