Death By Incarceration

Item

Title
Death By Incarceration
Artist
John Ortiz - Kehoe
Artist Statement
Death By Incarceration
Log Number
171-20
Medium
Acrylic
Format
14x18
Subject
Cartoon
Graffiti
Anger
Incarceration
Prison Suffering
Skulls
Text
Description
Color image of a skeleton with a living heart, wrapped in barbed wire, with prison bars going through it. The background is comprised of purple and orange swirls surrounding a prison guard tower with the word "DOC" and and numbers "256263" incorproated into the swirls.
Prison
Thumb 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/yrxfexqni0xswp8/Oritz-Kehoe_John_Death%20By%20Incarceration_20.jpg?dl=1

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