Monday, 13 May 2019

administrative segregation

Acknowledging that upwards of eighty-thousand individuals in the United States alone find themselves remanded to solitary confinement on any given day, this decade-old participatory project—via Things Magazine—takes solicitations for open sky visions and images from the incarcerated and attempts to pair them with volunteer arts and photographers to deliver. In addition to sending the composition to prison where it can decorate the bare walls of the isolated, the range of requests conflated with the attributed catalogue of memories and hope paint an incredibly honest and exposed portrait of the imprisoned.