Oil on stretched canvas, ready to hang.
Signed on the front.
Painted in prison, the artwork "A World of Concrete and Iron" comments on isolation, voyeurism, and the excesses of structure and expense applied to confine of prisoners by the State.
The imagery references Geoffrey Smart, and his penchant of placing solo figures within overwhelming built environments.
Prisons are inordinately expensive and overwhelming heterotopic environments where people live isolated within a closed, crowed environment.
The weight of structure over the lone figure in this image is representative of the oppressive weight of the social strictures of those incarcerated behind prison walls.