Amy Elkins, Black is the Day, Black is the Night
“Serving time on the River” game spinner.
Spinner from a handmade board game made by a man serving a life sentence.
Amy Elkins, Elsewhere #4
When asked what do you remember of home?
“Pine trees, dusty gravel. Mama cooking, black eyed peas, cornbread, greens, deer meat. Mostly safe but sad.”
(32 yr-old death row inmate having thus far served 13 years out his sentence)
Amy Elkins, 13/32 (Not the Man I Once Was)
Portrait of a man having thus far served 13 years out of a deathrow sentence, where the ratio of years spent in prison to years alive determined the level of image loss.
“Commissary bought greeting cards (L: sent from death row. R: sent from solitary)” - from Amy Elkins, Black is the Day, Black is the Night.
About the series:
Black is the Day, Black is the Night explores identity using concepts of time, accumulation, memory and distance through personal correspondence with men serving life and deathrow sentences in some of the most maximum security prisons in the U.S., all of which had served between 13-26 years at point of contact.
