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SOLITARY GARDENS is a public art project and land use alternative, by jackie sumell, that begs us to imagine a landscape without prisons. The project utilizes prison abolition, permaculture, and alternative education to facilitate unexpected exchanges between persons subjected to solitary confinement and volunteer communities on the “outside.” Solitary Gardens' 6 x 9 foot garden beds maintain the blueprint of a US solitary cell and are “gardened” by prisoners through written exchanges with volunteers. Prisons are the descendants of slavery. Solitary Gardens will be constructed from the ancestral byproducts: sugarcane, cotton and indigo -- exposing the illusion that slavery was abolished.
With 5% of the world’s population and 25% of its prisoners, the United States is the greatest incarcerator in the world. Yet our lust for punishment in no way fits the crime: more than 80,000 prisoners are subjected to the cruel and unusual conditions of indefinite solitary confinement, the practice of isolating a prisoner in a 6 x 9 foot cell for 22‐24 hours per day. Solitary confinement is a punitive strategy for control, not rehabilitation. It has been denounced as torture by the ACLU, United Nations and human rights watchdogs around the world.
Solitary Gardens’ ecological and social footprint will counterbalance that of the prison complex. As the gardens grow, the cells will be overcome by plant life, demonstrating that no matter what harm we humans impose on ourselves and the planet, nature, like human hope, love, and the imagination, will always win in the end.
Solitary Gardens thanks the Nathan Cummings Foundation, NORA (New Orleans Redevelopment Authority), the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, VOTE (Voice of the Experienced), Dillard University, SUA NOLA (Supporting Urban Agriculture, New Orleans), Eyebeam NYC, IDIYA Makers’ Space, Antenna.Works, Swan River Yoga, Reyn Studios, LESGC (Lower East Side Girls Club), Vaku and all those forced to endure the inhumane... show more conditions of solitary confinement; may you prevail through the victory of love. show more
With 5% of the world’s population and 25% of its prisoners, the United States is the greatest incarcerator in the world. Yet our lust for punishment in no way fits the crime: more than 80,000 prisoners are subjected to the cruel and unusual conditions of indefinite solitary confinement, the practice of isolating a prisoner in a 6 x 9 foot cell for 22‐24 hours per day. Solitary confinement is a punitive strategy for control, not rehabilitation. It has been denounced as torture by the ACLU, United Nations and human rights watchdogs around the world.
Solitary Gardens’ ecological and social footprint will counterbalance that of the prison complex. As the gardens grow, the cells will be overcome by plant life, demonstrating that no matter what harm we humans impose on ourselves and the planet, nature, like human hope, love, and the imagination, will always win in the end.
Solitary Gardens thanks the Nathan Cummings Foundation, NORA (New Orleans Redevelopment Authority), the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, VOTE (Voice of the Experienced), Dillard University, SUA NOLA (Supporting Urban Agriculture, New Orleans), Eyebeam NYC, IDIYA Makers’ Space, Antenna.Works, Swan River Yoga, Reyn Studios, LESGC (Lower East Side Girls Club), Vaku and all those forced to endure the inhumane... show more conditions of solitary confinement; may you prevail through the victory of love. show more
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March 19, 2018
Jourdan S. asked:Hey guys, I’m looking to volunteer somewhere over the summer to relax and do some gardening. I’m hopeful to start a masters program in the fall and would love some down time beforehand. I’m truly obsessed with growing things! Could you suggest a place which might be able to offer what I’m looking for? I’d even love to maintain house gardens if that’s a route someone has to offer.Andrea A. replied:https://www.facebook.com/1686714011548101 SOLITARY GARDENS
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