Death Row’s prisoner Albert Jones has documented the conditions of the prison system through his magazines and chefs.
Albert Jones has been convicted to die. But in struggle “To remember” and Support his daughter And grandchildren, he sells his creative efforts.
Jones’ works will be auctioned at the auction at the New York International Antimonopoly Book Fair on April 3-5.
The prisoner of the death line, Jones, spent more than 30 years in one of the most important prisons of the nation, San Kuentin. He was sentenced to death in 1996 for the murder of the California couple. In time, Jones created life in the place he knew he would never leave. He started writing art and creating his voice to document a prison life.
Armed with the 199 epidemic, the atrocities of imprisonment inspired his first book. I survived Kvid-9which was reflected on the disease cleaning the facility. He also told the deaths of mobile thumbs, one of which was a convicted serial killer. In an interview, Jones spoke about isolation pain and pain, while when they were executed when they live.
“I want to remember as, first of all, a man who made a mistake,” said Jones Times. “I didn’t understand what I was going to do with the rest of my life, knowing that the state wanted to kill me, as if I have nothing.”
Next to his visual art Jones is auctioned to prison chefs, which emphasize the utility of prison life and manuscript diary reveal ignorance and cruelty experienced by prisoner people.
“He was in the cell for 14 days, because the punishment was something, but you should get 10 days in that cell,” Jones wrote in one diary entrance. “On the day of Tset, he killed himself. I don’t know if you can go to heaven if you kill yourself, but I pray that he will do, and that his family rest. “
Jones is not the only mottled person whose art has had an impactIn a number of all country, prison walls have evidence of emergency. Some artists continue to show their work in large institutions like Smithsonian and have helped create programs aimed at restoring, restraint and individual expression.
Former and current prisoner artists
Tameka Cole
Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, a visual artist and writer, began creating an Alabama Faculty of Corrections. His mixed media collages, many of which are studying systematic pressure, mass prison and black identity, nation. Cup has been performed at a prominent Moma and PS1 exhibition, Marking time: Art in a mass prison ageA number
Welmon Sharlhorne
An independent artist from Louisiana, Wellmon Charlhorn, began painting at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, which is also known as Angola Prison. Using only ballpoint pens and manilean envelopes, Sharlher has created complex architectural drawings and surreal cars. Now is free, Charlher known in his signature style It mixes the structure, repetition and imagination. Charlhereen’s art has been shown in institutions such as the American Vision Museum in Baltimore and the Southern Art Museum in New Orleans.
Mother Abu – Al Amal
The journalist, the former black panther and the political activist have been imprisoned since 1981 in Pennsylvania since 1981 for the murder of a police officer. Abuamal maintains his innocence. Abu-Jamal from the death line became a fruitful writer and commentator, race, justice and state violence. His most famous work, Live from the death lineDietary experience. The work criticizes the American criminal justice system. Abu-Al Amali Reviews and recorded broadcasts have had a wide range of political and academic circles. He continues to protect prison reforms and elimination.
Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter
It is also known as Isis Tha Savior, Baxter is a multicultural artist, activist and pedagogue. Baxter shoots in the Pennsylvania prison system from his personal experience. The mediators who have chosen are visual art, music and film. His work often applies to reproductive justice and criminalization of black women. His short film, IA is not a womanHe studies pregnant women’s imprisonment and presented in Sundance and Tribeca film festivals.
Ndupti olatshani
Olatushhan is a painter and activist who spent 28 years in prison-2 in the death line for murder, he did not. He was born in St. Louis, he was mistakenly convicted in 1985 for MemPhis murder. During his prison, Olatushan taught to paint using art to overcome and resist. His condemnation due to the prosecutor’s office failed in 2012. Since then since he has used his history and art to advocate for criminal justice reform and death penalty.
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