by Patricia Sahertian | Aug 20, 2013 | painting
“mangio”, 3 x 3 inches, acrylic on photopaper. Inside this wrapper is my favorite lunch in Phoenix. It’s one of Pane Bianco’s delicious focaccia slices. To me it’s a good old New York style Sicilian slice – yummy and...
by Patricia Sahertian | Aug 14, 2013 | painting
“why, nabisco, why?” 3.125 x 4.5 inches, acrylic on photopaper. Since I was a young girl, I have always loved the plain cookies, chocolate was way too busy for me, and besides it got all gooey in my tea. (OK, I admit, I dunk). My favorites are no longer...
by Patricia Sahertian | Aug 12, 2013 | prisoners
“song and dance man”, 3 x 3 inches, acrylic on photopaper. William Rainer Yuma Prisoner 2111 This story makes me feel sad, it really shows the prejudice of the time and place, the first article doesn’t even give William Rainer a name. Nor does it...
by Patricia Sahertian | Aug 9, 2013 | prisoners
“forged and forgotten”, 3 x 3 inches, acrylic on photopaper. Frank R. Moore Yuma Prisoner 2502 A typical scam in the west during the early 1900s was the check forgery. A “customer” would go into the bank with a check from an out of town bank,...
by Patricia Sahertian | Jul 17, 2013 | painting
“round and round”, 3 x 3 inches, acrylic on photopaper. Demand being insanely high, cottage industries began to appear; a hat-knitting guild appeared in England in 1424, along with many others across Europe. Once the common man knew how to knit, the...
