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dyanna came over today and told me she had this connection at Alcatraz and when we got into it, we started talking baout doing an art show there over the summer.
so heres the idea:
we are going to paint portraits of influential inmates within the sells they stayed. (ideally, we will be locked in) and the public can watch us painting. the portraits will be done in the black and white with colorful background style that is in my other paintings to symbolize the color and beauty they either saw in the outside world/freedom or that was within their minds. (many inmates wrote quite a lot while there)
i'd like to have a few done already before we go that will be on display in the corresponding cell. it would be really nice to also be permitted to stay over night to work on the painting and channel the energy of the cell and the perspective of what it was like stay there.
dyanna has a friend who shoots film who also is planning on going on this trip, and should would video document the whole thing.
after the show, we would sell the paintings and perhaps donate a percentage to something fitting.
i can just imagine us sitting in the cell, people standing behind us watching as we paint, and as the tourists walk around the prison, they will see all the other paintings in the other cells and start to think that we had been there for an incredibly long time (to have been able to paint all those portraits)
this project would be an incredible experience that i think would stand out in my life if we are able to pull it off. its such a well known location that brings in sooo many people too. not too bad for getting your name out there.
so heres the idea:
we are going to paint portraits of influential inmates within the sells they stayed. (ideally, we will be locked in) and the public can watch us painting. the portraits will be done in the black and white with colorful background style that is in my other paintings to symbolize the color and beauty they either saw in the outside world/freedom or that was within their minds. (many inmates wrote quite a lot while there)
i'd like to have a few done already before we go that will be on display in the corresponding cell. it would be really nice to also be permitted to stay over night to work on the painting and channel the energy of the cell and the perspective of what it was like stay there.
dyanna has a friend who shoots film who also is planning on going on this trip, and should would video document the whole thing.
after the show, we would sell the paintings and perhaps donate a percentage to something fitting.
i can just imagine us sitting in the cell, people standing behind us watching as we paint, and as the tourists walk around the prison, they will see all the other paintings in the other cells and start to think that we had been there for an incredibly long time (to have been able to paint all those portraits)
this project would be an incredible experience that i think would stand out in my life if we are able to pull it off. its such a well known location that brings in sooo many people too. not too bad for getting your name out there.