Six oils depict poor or third world people, some laboring in dress clothes. In one, the lone white person is a victim. In the other five, it's more unclear what is happening, but the semi-rural exteriors range from tense to disturbing. Despite the power of the subject matter, execution steals the show. The notation is so mixed, washes, impasto, wild gestures broad and minute, as to threaten depiction. The technical variety is accentuated by colorization; high key tints and high hue contrast between underpainting and finish. These effects and the paintings' realism trouble each other and resist reconciliation.
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