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Bitter Broken Bread, South Wales

By Roger Polley 2006

Roger Polley

Dimensions
90cm x 150cm

This work shows a series of slag heap indentations shot at different times of the day.  The work is juxtaposed with the text of Idris Davis, Welsh poet who had a strong voice during the pit strikes of the 1920's.
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