FIVE2TWELVE AN ART PROJECT ON THE DEATH PENALTY Based on visits to Gene Hathorn, death row inmate # 000800 at the Polunsky Unit, a High Security prison outside Livingston, Texas “...At a point I noticed his wristwatch was turned upside down. I asked him why and he said ”Time for me and you is different. To you time is about the things you are to do and when to do them. To me time is about nothing. It is just an awareness of emptiness.” I understood. To him the clock has, for the past 24 years, shown five to twelve.” From “A Journey Into the American Nightmare”--Texan%20journal.htmlshapeimage_1_link_0
Animated movie by Evaristti and animator Sara Koppel based on drawings by Texas Death Row inmate Gene Hathorn and with music composed by Kenneth Thordal to a poem by Hathorn: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk6W1i06uwc More music composed by Thordal to Hathorn´s poems: www.songsfromdeathrow.comhttp://www.thordal.comhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk6W1i06uwchttp://www.songsfromdeathrow.com/shapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1shapeimage_2_link_2
Read about Evaristti´s journey to the American Nightmare, meeting Gene Hathorn at the Polunsky Unit and the installation MEAL consisting of a huge aquarium containing goldfish, and a can of fish food made of Gene Hathorn´s dry freezed body, once executed >> Marco Evaristti, Gurney, 2008 Guilded bronze, silk and leather
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