Artist: Riley Jewson, Age: 6
Lead-safety Message: 1923 Sept – workers started dying in the DuPont TEL works… “sickening deaths and illnesses of hundreds of TEL workers… Gripped by violent bursts of insanity, the afflicted would imagine they were being persecuted by butterflies and other winged insects before expiring, their bodies having turned black and blue.” (Kitman 2000)
Description of Work: Message from Chronology of Leaded Gasoline / Leaded Petrol History, 2011 by Elizabeth O’Brien and Zac Gethin-Damon, 23 Dec 2011. Stencilled butterflies drawn in and around with coloured pencils.
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