Incarceration has reshaped my family and my hometown in southwest Ohio. I began what would become the book and exhibition Marking Time by displaying photos of incarcerated relatives around my apartment, partly as an attempt to work through my own discomfort with the pictures of them in prison, and to bring their presence into my daily life. Marking Time grew out of nine years of researching and archiving, and draws on multiple sources: interviews, site visits, personal collections, institutional archives, family narratives, and the growing scholarship in critical prison studies, black cultural theory, and visual culture.
Source : Creation in Confinement: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration
