In the villages where agriculture is practiced, especially in rural areas, everyday life is a challenge for each person. Working as a day laborer is a difficult way to earn a living.
It is a privilege for certain people to be able to afford to hire helpers to water their gardens and fields each month. Those whose water source makes them self-sufficient, depend on the depth of their wells and the quantity of water collected during winter to have the ability to work all year long.
This young farm worker, very strong physically, waters the ground using two equal-sized cans filled with water drawn from a well. The weight of carrying and pouring out the water accentuates his musculature developed by this type of manual labor. He does this work for very low wages - just to survive. There is no written contract for this type of labor; the agreements between landowner and laborer are oral, and generally tend to favor the landowner over the worker.

(Farm laborer), 2001
28” x 20”, Woodburning with colored pencil