Tag: Irene Martinez
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The second chart
Irene MartinezChicago, Illinois, United States When I arrived at the clinic, I was already behind schedule. I got up at 5:30 to get ready, but with my daughter’s end of the year school trip made things more complicated. I was already rushing when I got to the clinic, feeling agitated, my stomach tightened, yet high-spirited…
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Always with us – Desaparecidos
Irene Martinez, MDChicago, Illinois, USA Desaparecidos1 is a series of drawings and photographs depicting part of my own and other people’s experiences during the Argentine military dictatorship in the nineteen-seventies. I found that words were not enough to express what my family, the Argentinean people, and I experienced during the dictatorship. After being kidnapped and…