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It got me thinking and feeling. I was surprised by the beauty of the pictures. Art on whatever canvas is available, with simple materials to escape the grim situation of confinement. What sad and tragic longing for the “free world”, the beautiful world outside of their prisons.
It got me thinking and feeling. I was surprised by the beauty of the pictures. Art on whatever canvas is available, with simple materials to escape the grim situation of confinement. What sad and tragic longing for the “free world”, the beautiful world outside of their prisons.
Following this, I read comments on
another post calling for death by hanging for paedophiles, murderers, drug
dealers and the like. Art is an escape I thought, a chance to find calm, to
leave an old self behind and make something worthwhile as an artist, even if
you come from an awful background and have done great evil to other humans.
Then to read the comments (there were over 1,300), most of which supported
death by hanging, but not all, it just seemed like there was an inversion. The
incarcerated artists were trying to find peace, but the posters out there in
the free world wanted death, and punishment and public killing. It was very sad
to read such hate and bloodlust from the free.
