HEY, don’t drink the water, baby— / didn’t you see the news? / Pencil dust, chipped paint, shower steam, brushed teeth, / there are so many ways it's already in you.

“Another Event” by Esteban del Valle is acrylic, pastel and spray paint on raw canvas. 78” x 60” Esteban del Valle is an interdisciplinary artist born in Chicago, Illinois in 1984.  He completed his MFA in painting at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2009, where he received a Presidential Scholarship and the Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship.

May we wrap in tanoor bread our enemies swirl/ them in date molasses scoops of sesame paste / may we fill their bellies, stuff them in fact / like leaves of chard