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| T-bone phone 2020 |
During the exhibition, Thank God I’m home, there are two workpieces that stood me out and really got my attention. First, before talking about the piece of art by Julie Green, the racial justice that is happening in the world is really disgusting. The way it runs is absurd. People are getting incarcerated for doing anything or even minding their own business. The first work from the exhibition is the T-Bone Phone, 2020. This piece of hard was made with acrylic, palladium leaf, fabric, and glow-in-the-dark on Tyrek. The Exoneree spent twenty-seven years without having a steak. When he got out, he was surprised by all the new technology such as cell phones and even computers. By looking at the phone, we notice that there are two kinds of sticks that are formed like a heart. It can be interpreted that the steak that he didn’t take for that long means that he didn’t have a taste of good food. We also notice that the phone has a phone button which basically we didn’t have this kind of placement of the phone call at the time he was incarcerated, next to it we have a calendar app which we see there is a number 27 on top of it. The number 27 can be interpreted as the time that he spent in prison and being in the same hole for twenty-seven years of his life. For example, looking from my point of view I haven’t been on earth for 27 years. Imagine someone who is in the same place, living in a bad condition with no good food, no good bed to sleep in for almost thirty years, we also see there is another app with a UBS letter and next to it we see a mail app. The racial justice in this country is horrible. People of color are being tortured and imprisoned because they have black color skin. Around the phone, we see that there are people standing next to it. People are in prison while the world evolves, technology accelerates, and while we are shifting into a more modern world. Time passes by but they are still in prison living in a bad condition. I feel bad for what there are doing to our community, we are treated differently than any other human being just because we have a darker skin color. We are racially profiled outside the street.
There are a lot of minorities in prison that are waiting for trial knowing that they are innocents. We see that most of the courts by looking at the jury members are all white, and not even a single person of color seating in those same seats. For Example, I watched a series on Netflix, there were 5 kids not even 20 years old yet. At the time of the crime, they were in central park playing, when the police were searching for the suspect, they point out those 5 kids just because they were there during the crime and most likely they were people of color. They were wrongfully accused and imprisoned by an all-white jury. They were forced and tortured to say that they were guilty of a crime that they didn’t even know about. That series caught a lot of people’s attention, it was disgusting and horrible what they did to those innocent people. They took their whole life as normal teenagers.
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| At home with family |
The second workpiece that stood out to me during Julie Green’s exhibition was “At home with family”. The piece was made on Tyvek material and made of acrylic paint, glow in the dark paint, fabric, thread, and 24k gold. By looking at this piece of art we see a family of four people seating around a table eating and enjoying their moment. Knowing that a family is an important factor in human life, some people don’t have that taste for seating with family members and eating. We also see some clouds above the window. Some people especially minorities have been living separated from their own families for many years in history until now. They are in prison suffering; some people don’t even have any family visits anymore because they lost hope. This racial justice system is tearing apart some good families by wrongfully or sometimes purposely incarcerating people specifically people of color. While they are in prison a lot of things happen; they cannot see their children growing or cannot be in their lives to educate them or to have some family time with them. The world keeps going, anything is happening; sometimes they heard that some of their family members died or even sometimes the worst of the worst one your parents, your wife, or one of your kids died. It is a lot of pain having to live with that knowing that you’re not going to see them ever in your life. One of the quotes that I can relate to this topic from the readings is “to indoctrinate boys into the rules of patriarchy, we force them to feel pain and to deny their feelings” this quote is basically the same thing when it comes to racial justice. They force people of color to be imprisoned and feel that they are not part of society. There are even some white people that still think that people of color should not be in this society and to do that is to incarcerate them. The second quote that I can relate to this writing from one of our readings is “I have a dream” this famous quote from Martin Luther King jr has been always in my mind. People of color have a dream just like other people. For them not to do the things that they want in life while living in fear or even in prison is horrible is messed up.
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