Broom Maker © Marilyn Anderson. Woodcut, 9 1/16″ x 11 7/8″
This young man from San Luis Jilotepéque pictured in the print expertly made a brooms attractively braided at the top. Near his home, in the “tierra caliente” warm lowland area of Guatemala, palm trees provide fronds, his raw material. Increasingly, however, one now sees bright colored plastic brooms for sale. Although cheerful, when worn out they often are burned with other trash in town dumps emitting foul toxic fumes.