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full throttle ;memory landscape wall of unrelated memory, snow globe dormant memory of objects 

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after putting the snow globes together you have to wait for the air to make its way to the top. 

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selected memory triggers

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Memory landscape , dormant memory waiting to be shaken into active memory 

and light wall , installation 9′ x 9′ x 9′

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this is the finished piece, relic 1 dormant memory 

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on the steel stand 

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relic 1 

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relic 2 

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I am making large snow globes to go in front of the light wall . they will be in 2 sizes 6″ and 12″ the 12″ take 3 gallons of water solution. I have to stabilize the figure so it wont interact with the water and so you can shake it and it wont fall off the stand.  I found both of these figures int he woods at different times at first it was a great mystery, and as I cleaned them up I realized what they are

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I tried to make each base, one at a time but, I made one well and the net two failed -so I decided to make a mold for the base that was perfect as I was going to make 6 all together.

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this is albi’s bunk it was a corner bunk because of the fire exits they had extra space and albi also paid to hav 2 mattresses sewn together and extra big pillows 

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this iour bunk I was #1upper I like I had said the only problem with it was that is the gaurd wanted to start trouble he would come to our bunk first as it was first as you came in, he would beat on the railing of the bed with his flashlight and start yelling, other guys would take the bait and start yelling back and in end up in the office waiting to go to the SHU that was his goal

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empty bunk - you couldn't draw a someone else's bunk as it is private space, and my bunkie didn't want me to draw our bunk ,so the next door guy got sent ot the SHU and his bunkie fled -leaving the are empty so I took the opportunity to draw the empty bunk 8′x6′

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where we lived, each town with in the unit had a name, based on who lived there or what view they had ,I lived in section 8  named for the low income housing in inner cities, we had no windows, no privacy,next to the gambling tables, and the lights never went off, also during a shake down we were the first bunk hit.

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you must learn your inmate number,it is how you are referred to .you must keep it with you at al times-but you have no pockets -so we punched a hole in it and wore it around your neck 

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drawings from prison; in 2015 I was sent to prison ,while I was there I made some 500 drawings , as a artist on the outside it was a way of making my time go by faster, to stay occupied, while I was drawing one of the guys came up to me and said “ you know we dont have anyway of showing people how we live, you could draw the prison” and so I added this to my daily practice drawing bunks, tv rooms, hallways . to try and open a window into our daily life. I have made a book of some of these drawings and I will try and post one a day so that the book is open to everyone who wants to read it