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Magee, a young African American, got into a fight in the unit with a Native American (attacked him in his cell as the story goes) and Gray (the African American guy who was painting abstracts and didn’t have that much time left) went to help (as the story goes). Gates is in the Hole (solitary) for six months of this eight months left, plus they tacked on two more months. Eight months of solitary! The weapon was a sharpened end of a paintbrush and since they were both in art class Jack had to do some fancy footwork (via email, excuse the mixed metaphor) to avoid inventorying all our brushes. The inmates can order art supplies and have them in their cells, including brushes and pencils. So we’re down two guys.
Armando came to our Character First discussion today. The first non-white (I hate how race conscious this place is!) to attend. I think he did it for me and I was happy about that. We discussed “Faith” as a virtue (trying to avoid religion, which was not easy). Armando offered many details about Jim Jones’ fiasco in Guyana as evidence that “false faith” exists. True dat.
There’s something new afoot. There’s a batch of four new guys, of which 50% are starting right in with personal, expressive works. Jeremy, a white skinhead, is making a piece with an Incan mummy (face) holding bugs against a frescoed background. Interesting color control. We talked about bringing the piece forward all at once, not finishing one corner. [I’m thinking Anselm Kiefer]
Carl, in his first piece, did something that looks like line-drawn alien figures (white on black) at the bottom of the canvas recipients of “hellfire” rain from above. We talked about the need to be conscious of the lines, when are you wanting the impression to be “sketchy” to the viewer and when were you just in a hurry (or lazy). Oddly, he seemed to listen and made the less important figures more hazy. [Keith Haring?]
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