Regret by Todd “Hyung-Rae” Tarselli

A brown and white drawing of an old man’s face. The man’s face is almost in profile in front of a dark background. The man’s face has many wrinkles and a bristley white beard. He looks off into the distance towards something we cannot see in the drawing.

Regret by Todd “Hyung-Rae” Tarselli

Medium: instant coffee, white pencil on a paper bag

Size: 11 in x 8.5 in

This portrait was done by using the instant coffee packets found in the “lockdown bags” (breakfast bags given during a typical lockdown). You can see another portrait TR did for our last show here. Its also in the gallery on the back floating wall.

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 an Life Without Parole sentence.

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A brown and white drawing of an old man’s face. The man’s face is almost in profile in front of a dark background. The man’s face has many wrinkles and a bristley white beard. He looks off into the distance towards something we cannot see in the drawing.
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