On a black background, inside a border of a thin white line, is an image of a flying bird made out of flames, such as a phoenix. The flames are yellow, orange, and red, and the phoenix’s beak is similar to a hawk’s hooked beak. From below the phoenix, a hand with shackles around the wrist is reaching up toward the bird with an outstretched palm.

Hope as Ephemerality by Shane Daly (Auction ID: 64)

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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)

Description

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?