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Three Sketches From Prison
by Brian Hindson, Prison Journalism Project April 30, 2021
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My memory of looking out at a gun tower while at United States Penitentiary Yazoo City in Mississippi.
Looking out the bars at FCI Big Spring at a vast west Texas landscape, and the irony of seeing what looks like a gun tower but is actually an unused airport tower.
A sketch of myself as I draw.
I consider myself a painter and use sketches to develop ideas for paintings. Yet sometimes the sketches are all I have.
These three sketches were done on cardboard, repurposed from box meal boxes. We received a lot of these kinds of meals in February during a three-week stretch during the massive winter storm that caused massive power outages. We had to use portable toilets and we had no running water.
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Brian Hindson
Brian Hindson is an artist whose favorite styles of work are impressionism and pop art. He particularly likes pop art for its audacity. His favorite artist is Edward Hopper. His work is published on the Justice Arts Coalition. Brian is incarcerated in Texas.
