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Nothing is forever, and to stop time from wiping out memories, Devon Bailey - a dock worker in the US - turned to oil paintings to capture and manifest the world how she currently sees it. "My oil paintings serve as documentations of a rapidly evolving landscape. I feel a sense of urgency to render my surroundings in a realistic manner, as the neighborhoods I grew up in are redeveloped, and as the process of automation begins to eliminate the need for humans in my line of work," she told P&H. Bailey grew up in a working-class environment in New England and today works at the port of Boston. She also immortalizes a bond with her father through her paintings. "This impulse is intensified by the fact that being a longshoreman is a family trade - my father and I work in the ports together. Preserving this generational bond and the nature of our labor is central to both my work on the docks and my paintings," she said. |