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Cellblock
Visions
is a lively collection of inmate artwork, created behind bars, from
county jail to death row the alternative artworld flourishing
today in American prisons. |
Punishment stimulates violence. Creative art stimulates the exercise of one's better nature.
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| In my youth, violence became my enemy... Photography, writing, music, and film are the weapons I use against it.
Gordon Parks |
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For booking information please contact: phylkorn@bcn.net
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Men
and women inmates, having no previous training, turn to art for a sense of self-respect, respect for and from others, a way to find peace. They transcend the cramped space, limited light, and narrow
vistas. They triumph over security bans
with ingenious resourcefulness - extracting color from shampoo, making paint out of M & Ms and sculpture out of toilet paper.