(50% to donate to good cause, 40% back to AFTI)

22.5 x 16.5

Medium: Ink pen

For nearly 3 1/2 years I have been incarcerated; yet, I have made every effort to live in the mindset of freedom. Every day is a therapeutic endeavor to improve. Every day, my pen creates art, poems and notes; the pen has become the tool for transformation. It honors those I’ve encountered here in the DOC. It keeps love alive in my family. The pen heals me, it heals us, sends out my SOS. It humbly places on display my New Heart. This piece is part of that New Heart; “On fragile paper is my fragile heart for you to see and for me to be.”