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⏲ Duration: 5 min 64 sec
✓ Published: 31-Jan-2020
✓ Published: 31-Jan-2020
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In partnership with the acclaimed visual artist Hank Willis Thomas, the nonprofit architecture firm MASS Design Group and the production team Openbox, The Writing on the Wall is a pop-up art installation made from writing by people in prison around the world. In an effort to raise awareness about mass incarceration and center the words of those directly impacted at the heart of the fight for prison reimagining, it is displayed in public spaces as a form of verbal and visual intrusion. nnEach deb
In partnership with the acclaimed visual artist Hank Willis Thomas, the nonprofit architecture firm MASS Design Group and the production team Openbox, The Writing on the Wall is a pop-up art installation made from writing by people in prison around the world. In an effort to raise awareness about mass incarceration and center the words of those directly impacted at the heart of the fight for prison reimagining, it is displayed in public spaces as a form of verbal and visual intrusion. nnEach deb
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