Your Labels, My Burdens

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

Item sets: Documenting Prison Education and Arts; Documenting Criminalization and Confinement; 25th Annual Exhibition

Media: https://www.dropbox.com/s/nud7vg0uclcv1v0/Smith_Joseph_Your%20Labels%2C%20My%20Burdens_20.jpg?dl=1

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