Game of Life by Shannon Matthews
Medium: Acrylic paint and ink on checkerboard
Dimensions: 15 x 15
Image description: Mock Monopoly board painting on the back of a checkerboard. In the center of the board, there is a large figure in the style of the “Monopoly man” wearing dark red prison clothes, with broken chains on its hands and feet, and carrying a bag of money. Grey bards extend across the center of the board, behind this figure, with the letters “INJUSTICE” between the bars. Similar to the boardgame Monopoly, all the edges of the board are made up of squares with different “costs” of being imprisoned, starting with “County Jail,” and including other squares such as “Attorney Fines $$$,” “Court Fines $$$,” “Commissary $$$,” “Bail,” “Go to RHU 30 days,” and “Life w/o Parole, Lose 30-4E turns.”