Prisoners' Inventions is the result of a decades-long pen pal friendship between the Chicago-based art collective Temporary Services (Marc Fisher, Brett Bloom, and formerly Salem Collo-Julin) and an artist named Angelo who was incarcerated in California.
I first experienced this book as a gallery installation in San Francisco in 2003 and it greatly expanded my perspective on prison life, which had heretofore been informed by television and pervy mail sent to my P.O. — Read the rest
