GRACE HERMAN Original Work and An Artist’s Statement

GRACE HERMAN | AN ARTIST’S STATEMENT

Every ten seconds, waterborne illness takes another human life. Although access to clean drinking water is a basic human right, 785 million people lack access to it. Women and girls bear most of the burden to collect water where it is scarce. The average African woman walks four miles to haul 40 pounds of water each day. Globally, an estimated 200 million hours are spent each day collecting water. If these had been your circumstances, what would your life have been? Or, rather: if these women and girls had access to water, what could their lives become?