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Poultry

Photo: Jens Ziehe
Photo: Jens Ziehe
Photo: Jens Ziehe
Photo: Jens Ziehe
Photo: Jens Ziehe
Photo: Jens Ziehe
Photo: Jens Ziehe
Photo: Jens Ziehe
Photo: Jens Ziehe
Photo: Jens Ziehe
Photo: Jens Ziehe
Photo: Jens Ziehe
Photo: Jens Ziehe
Photo: Jens Ziehe
Photo: Jens Ziehe
Photo: Jens Ziehe
Photo: Jens Ziehe
Photo: Jens Ziehe
Photo: Jens Ziehe
Photo: Jens Ziehe
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    • Poultry
  • 1970-1977
  • series of 18 drawings on paper, various sizes
These sketches and drawings from the series “The Poultry” in various techniques were inspired by the labor at the poultry artificial raising plant. This has been a forced experience or a form of punishment after “Planting Trees” was criticized. This work got criticized because it apparently conveyed strong tendencies of a western “decadent” art. By working at the plant I was given the opportunity to visit a reality unknown to me till that time, filled with problems and very interesting developments. I came to meet the one social category, considered as the healthiest part of the Albanian society, capable of educating the new socialist breed. This experience has served me as a period of realization, long reflectivity and maturity that modified my creative practice not only in conjunction to life, but to art also. E.H.