Fighting Chains by Todd “Hyung-Rae” Tarselli
Medium: acrylic
Size: 18.5 x 23.5
Artist bio: Hyung-Rae also known as TR is famous for his incredible paintings on leaves that fly across the fences into his reach. He calls them his contraband series. You can read more about TR on Let’s Get Free’s Prison Advisors page. TR is among the over 5,400 sentenced to die in PA’s prison with a Life Without Parole sentence.
TR has an Instagram page: @toddhyungraetarselli
Image Description: This acrylic painting was inspired by Andy Warhol. There are four squares. Each background is brightly colored, teal, blue, yellow, magenta. In each square there are silhouettes of muscular men in chains. In each square, they progressively get more free. And the square on the top left, one man is breaking the chains. The next image has two men breaking the chains. The third image has three men breaking the chains in the fourth image. All four men are breaking the chains with their fists raised high.