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Prison Blog

In which Possum recounts his experiences as an offender in the system.

Possum Bones is autistic. He has identified as a dirty kid in the past, and he’s attended multiple rainbow gatherings. He has several years left to serve in the Washington Correctional system.

He has been making art since he could sit up. He communicates better in writing than speech. If you are interested in the experience of an autistic person doing prison time, check out his Prison Blog. If you are a fan of comic art, underground/outsider music, Lovecraft, Clarke Ashton Smith, Murakami, Cixui Liu, etc.

Philosophy of Art

I'm gonna get corny and share with you my ' philosophy of art '. This is called " Art by any means necessary " . It is the guerilla warfare of visual art. When you have an image to complete, you do it ' by any means necessary ' . There is no artistic convention that is more valuable than the realization of your vision. The only thing more valuable ( in this paradigm, not in life ) than successfully realizing that vision is the knowledge you might gain from failure to realize that image by eschewing conventions. So, there is no material too cheap, no tactic too unconventional or underhanded . Rip the top layer of the paper with a razor or with sandpaper, fold it into a box, scan it and super saturate the colors. Print it back out onto a different type of paper. Add words to it, panelize it, whatever .

Elisa Carlson