Evan Bisell, kicked off the 10th day of YAAW by breaking down what the Prison Industrial Complex is. We formed 3 groups and worked to unpack what prison, industrial, and complex mean. Later, we learned some cool freedom/confinement words and related them to Prison Industrial Complex influences.
We made venn diagrams of Media from the Past and Innovations on the Past and then Evan showed us his awesome website called the Knotted Line, an interactive website that explores the historical relationship between freedom and confinement in the geographic area of the United States. Later, we made an x and y axis using the artwork from the Knotted Line to compare events from different time periods. Using our x and y axis as references, we created art that explored the relationship of said events.
“Love is the key that unlocks the door to ultimate reality.”
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
My work comes through a creative practice of engaging and clarifying love as a force of community, truth and interconnectedness. With this practice, I craft projects that are structures for imaginative dialogue and creative expressions of personal and community truths. My work comes from a belief that creativity is a source of power that allows access to realities that are otherwise unseen and leads to visions of new ways of being.
Projects are multi-faceted creations that involve publicly installed paintings, celebrations, workshops and related exhibitions. They develop through a long-term collaborative process of interviews, research, listening and collective art-making linked by a specific theme. Through this flexible practice of reflection and action, collaborators and I create objects of dialogue that house the perspectives, thoughts and creations of many, creating new forums and forms of expression that are not possible as separate individuals. The objects employ painting, interactive media, text and collage as ethnographic collaborations. Two recent projects have included investigations of love and the power of art and imagination as education.
Studio works are mixed media objects, paintings and installations. Also created through a personal practice of reflection and action, they are meditations on the inheritances of history as they manifest in community, truth, interconnectedness and love.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
My work comes through a creative practice of engaging and clarifying love as a force of community, truth and interconnectedness. With this practice, I craft projects that are structures for imaginative dialogue and creative expressions of personal and community truths. My work comes from a belief that creativity is a source of power that allows access to realities that are otherwise unseen and leads to visions of new ways of being.
Projects are multi-faceted creations that involve publicly installed paintings, celebrations, workshops and related exhibitions. They develop through a long-term collaborative process of interviews, research, listening and collective art-making linked by a specific theme. Through this flexible practice of reflection and action, collaborators and I create objects of dialogue that house the perspectives, thoughts and creations of many, creating new forums and forms of expression that are not possible as separate individuals. The objects employ painting, interactive media, text and collage as ethnographic collaborations. Two recent projects have included investigations of love and the power of art and imagination as education.
Studio works are mixed media objects, paintings and installations. Also created through a personal practice of reflection and action, they are meditations on the inheritances of history as they manifest in community, truth, interconnectedness and love.