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8 Reading: Art in prison Read the text about an art project. First decide whether the statements (1–5) are true (T) or false (F) and put a cross ( ✘ ) in the correct box. Then identify the sentence in the text which supports your decision. Write the first 4 words of this sentence in the space provided. There may be more than one correct answer; write down only one. The first one (0) has been done for you. Colorado inmates’ art expresses pain, hope and dreams 1  This year the annual Smithsonian Institution’s travelling exhibit series features the motto “Between Fences”. It sets out to spotlight life in small towns, which will mean picket fences and garden rock walls for many. But for Calvin Ford and thousands of fellow inmates living in prisons in Canon City, the exhibit’s latest destination, the theme takes on new meaning. “All I see is barbed wire,” says Ford, who won first place in a Colorado Department of Corrections art competition in conjunction with the Museum on Main Street project. More than 100 inmates from across Colorado entered art, poetry and essay contests. In Ford’s entry, a diving eagle superimposed over a waving American flag is clasping rolled razor wire that pokes through the flag. It won him first place and $20 for the prison store. Ford, 28, who was born on the Navajo reservation near Farmington, New Mexico, learned to draw from his grandmother, who made Navajo rugs. His prison term for felony trespassing will end in October. In the meantime, drawing helps him overcome the monotony of prison. “I think about freedom a lot,” he says. “I hope this is my last time in prison.” Canon City, where Territorial Correctional Facility and six other prisons are located, has been a prison town for almost 140 years. It is the birthplace of Colorado Corrections and the Colorado Museum of Prisons, said Katherine Sanguinetti, Department of Corrections spokeswoman. The Smithsonian and Colorado Humanities co-sponsor the exhibit running until 23 October. Much of the poetry and writing is dark, including a piece by Phillip Zuniga called The Devil’s Playground : “The devil was given permission one day to build a playground in his own special way. He chose the roughest terrain he could find. Full of rattlesnakes and scorpions combined. Then he surrounded the whole place with barbed wire, fences and towers where he placed trigger-happy demons twenty-four hours.” Other inmates found reason to hope despite their desperate surroundings. Jacob Ind, who planned the murder of his mother, Pamela Jordan, and stepfather, Kermode Jordan, on 17 December 1992, when he was 15, claiming to be a molestation victim, wrote in an essay of waking in a maximum-security prison. “I saw the fences as menacing barriers preventing me from […] being the man I was meant to be, keeping me from being a child once again. And then I saw the birds. When I began to notice the birds, ultimate symbols of freedom, willingly abiding in an environment designed to deprive people of freedom, my perception began to change. […] The only true fence, the only fence which can constrain us, is the fence we erect within ourselves and the barriers of our own construct.” (Kirk Mitchell, The Denver Post , 12 September 2010) 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 70 75 120 Art Check-out Now you can • Talk about works of art. • Evaluate street art. • Convince someone in a discussion. • Interpret abstract art. • Discuss the value of art. • Use different forms of the present tense accordingly. Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv