Prisoners' Inventions
Prisoners' Inventions
Production country:
us
Edition:
2005
Format:
workshop project
In 2001, Temporary Services invited Angelo, an incarcerated artist, to write and design a booklet about the many ingenious, practical, necessary, and sometimes downright bizarre things he has seen other prisoners invent. Angelo has generated about 110 pages of drawings and writings. He has collected everything from immersion heaters with electrical plugs made from paper clips and popsicle sticks, to cooking methods for making a sausage sauce with light fixtures. Angelo's drawings reveal another side of prison existence: the need to have objects that allow the most basic human desires to be felt.
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