JAIL and PRISON CELL COLLAGES

To maintain a practice of intense study and craft while also pushing that practice into uncomfortable spaces, embracing creativity, and allowing playfulness to enter the work is one of the functions of collaging jail cells. They are serious representations of emotive images of life in a 6’ by 8’ room with a low profile mattress and a sink on top of a toilet.

So in making these collages it becomes a meditative process of cutting, pasting, and assembling disparate materials to form an intention and speak about the inequities. It is also a codified language that allows me to pull from a variety of sources and condense them into a single image. There is a cathartic violence to it that allows the broken-up pieces to be restructured while remaining fractured. My hope is that elements of poetic abstraction mixed with critically charged content allows the one-off jail cell collages to live as hybrid portraits of otherness, isolation, diversity, and systematic injustice.

All professionally framed collages with floating images are $425. All unframed ones are $200. The collages measure 8 ½” x 11 ½”. The unframed ones have a white border and measure the same except with the border added they measure 11” x 15”. The prices below with indicated whether the collage is framed or unframed. Thank you for visiting!