Appendiks 4:

On Saturday, the 13th of December at 15.00 we invite you to APPENDIKS 4.

The first time I heard about Patrick Moore was at Midnight Special Bookstore (Santa Monica, California), where I was looking for LA graffiti and gang-related books. At Midnight Special Bookstore I talked with the nice shop owner a woman called Margie. Margie told me about how the bookstore invites ex-convicts to exhibit their drawings, poems and give talks about their crimes and the American prison system seen from the inside. In the back room Margie showed me some drawings by the 65-year-old prisoner Patrick Moore. That night I wrote a letter to K78329 in San Luis Obispo (CA) and have been exchanging letter with Patrick Moore since January 2003. In 1997 petty thief Patrick Moore was sentenced to life in prison for stealing a 12.99 dollar T-shirt. It was his 3rd conviction and the Californian 3-strike law puts people away for life no matter if they are petty thieves or murders. Jacob Fabricius, dec. 2003.

Appendiks 4 presents Patrick Moores drawings and newspaper clippings related to the 3-strike law. On view are also two documentaries about the American prison system made by Ashley Hunt (The Corrections Documentary Project) & Nicole Cousino (Concrete and Sunshine) and the book Prisoners inventions written and illustrated by Angelo (Produced by Temporary Services and White Walls, Chicago).

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