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Prisonation: Visions of California in the 21st Century

A series of landscape paintings and prints depicting all of California's thirty-three state prisons, inspired by paintings of the American West from the 19th century.

The entire series was exhibited at the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum in 2001.
A book has been published about the project: "Incarcerated: Visions of California in the 21st Century." A similar series was completed in 2002, depicting all fifteen of New York State's maximum security correctional facilities and exhibited at Debs & Co. Gallery, NYC, in a show entitled
"Maximum Security: Visions of New York in the 21st Century".

Carceral Geography Blog

- TN

Is the universe unnatural?

Is it annoying that I only pose questions?

-- TN

Big Plans!

I always begin the summer with big plans: I'm going to turn a couple of conference papers into articles, dust of a book proposal that I began working on a couple years ago, actually get on top of courses for the year, read books that I don't have time to read during the academic year,  etc., etc.  Typically, I complete a fraction of this work due to the various other obligations I have: summer teaching, family obligations, the list of home repairs that is at least as ambitious as my various scholarly plans.  I never finish any of the lists, although I do make a dent in all them.  I've learned to be relatively upbeat about this sorry state of affairs; after all, our plans really don't amount to all that much in the grand scheme of things.  Maybe I'll put "enjoy the summer" at the top of all my various lists.