Your Labels, My Burdens

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Title
Your Labels, My Burdens
Artist
Joseph Ray Smith
Artist Statement
Your Labels, My Burdens
Log Number
78-20
Medium
Graphite, charcoal, colored pencil
Format
18x24
Subject
Surrealist
Incarceration
Prison Suffering
Men
People
Text
Description
Black and white image of a man in a prison cell, up to his thighs in water, wrapped in barbed wire. Across his skin, on the bars of the cell, and in the water are words, including 'Abominable', 'Monster', and 'Tained'.
Prison
Newberry Correctional Facility
Source
25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners

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