Description
This Untitled piece is a study for a work of ink on pan. Pan is short for the Spanish word pañuelo. Pañuelo in English means handkerchief. These kinds of works of ball point pens, usually black, on handkerchiefs or pan are quite common in the Prisoner Art world.
The scene for this work is a living room, where a mirror in back of a picture frame captures the drawn curtains from a large living room window. Near the picture frame is a metal candleholder with an unlit candle.
The empty picture frame represents a photo of the artist’s father and his second wife. The artist was orphaned at birthed and was adopted as an infant by an African American couple. The work was completed on a handkerchief with a portrait of the couple inside the picture frame, and sent home to his father and wife. In 2018 the artist’s father died of natural causes.
