Sentences with phrase «dug by human hands»

Alfredo Jaar's photographs of Serra Pelada, an opencast gold mine dug by human hands in Brazil, are shown as color transparencies mounted in lightboxes, and sit in uneasy relation to Liza Lou's Gather Forty, a sculpture made from gold - plated beads threaded and bound in a sheaf.

Serra Pelada is an opencast mine, a prodigious pit dug by human hands, the result of a massive influx of self - employed miners to a remote part of northeastern Brazil.