Workers' Mandela/Tracing the Journeys (Mandala de los trabajodores/Siguendo los viajes); Workers' gloves, burlap coffee sacks, paper, silk flowers, cross and exvotos made by anonymous mexican artisans; 44"x48"x3"; 2011, Photo Credit; Tadd Merrick "Many workers carefully traced their journeys onti small maps which were provided to them. Artist B. Amore transcribed these to show the routes travelled to reach Vermont from Mexico. All of the gloves wrer donated by workers. The silver ex- votos are customarily used to request a grace for healing. Here they symbolize the deep faith of the immigrants as they set out on their journeys."