Auction History
User | Bid | Date | Auto |
Auction has ended. | December 11, 2021 12:01 am | ||
tamlynngates | $60.00 | December 7, 2021 10:02 pm |
Started On November 19, 2021 6:00 pm (America/New_York)
Creative Resistance: Let's Get Free
The Women & Trans Prisoner Defense Committee's creative practice of prison abolition
User | Bid | Date | Auto |
Auction has ended. | December 11, 2021 12:01 am | ||
tamlynngates | $60.00 | December 7, 2021 10:02 pm |
Started On November 19, 2021 6:00 pm (America/New_York)
Artist: Shane Daly
Medium: colored pencil on black drawing paper
Size: 12 in x 9 in
This piece can be shipped. This piece is framed. Auction Details
Artist Statement:
Try as I might, the nearest I can experience hope in here is as an entity with an ephemeral nature. It’s like I can feel this phoenix representing the promise of my freedom around me, but when I reach for it, it just eludes my grasp. It evaporates between my fingers, making me feel like a fool to have thought it was ever there at all. Some days it seems like all around me there are those getting paroled, winning appeals, benefiting from critically important legislation. I feel guilty inside because my joy for them is internally tempered by a voice that wonders if it will ever be my turn. When “justice” isn’t justice, when “truth” is irrelevant, when one’s humanity is subjugated to politics & the financial priority of the prison industrial complex, how can hope ever be anything but an ephemerality?