by Patricia Sahertian | Jun 24, 2013 | painting
Today I wanted to experiment with painting right onto an old photo. It was difficult to do emotionally because it meant that it is no longer that photograph. Technically it was also challenging. It is kodak paper, so I thought it could stand being wet, but it curled...
by Patricia Sahertian | Jun 24, 2013 | prisoners
“check your baggage?”, 3 x 3 inches, acrylic on photopaper. Charles Kelley Yuma Prisoner 1982 Charles Kelley, who while porter for the Hotel Weatherford, in February appropriated a valise belonging to one of the guests, entered a plea of guilty to the...
by Patricia Sahertian | Jun 23, 2013 | prisoners
“forks and knives”, 3 x 3 inches, acrylic on photopaper. Harry Stanton Yuma Prisoner 1964 Charles Jones and Harry Stanton (pictured), who broke Into a Santa Fe freight car, in October last and appropriated a lot of cutlery, entered a plea of guilty to the...
by Patricia Sahertian | Jun 22, 2013 | prisoners
“expression: sinister”, 3 x 3 inches, acrylic on photopaper. William Kirk Yuma Prisoner 1965 William Kirk, who in November last assaulted a man with a revolver in a Williams saloon, plead guilty to a charge of assault with intent to commit murder, was...
by Patricia Sahertian | Jun 11, 2013 | prisoners
As I research stories from turn of the twentieth century I am truly struck by the hardness of life, especially in the American West. This is one story that left me feeling especially forlorn. “my wife was 1919” 3 x 3 inches, acrylic on photopaper. When he...
