12/8/19 I had someone tell me, and other people who I shared my pieces with, that I didn't do real art. When questioned he explained that real art didn't use words. I guess the Campbell's soup thing went over his head. Even so, I think anything expressed can be art. I used to marvel at …
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God’s Secret – Charlie Castillo
12/12/19 I always felt that earth's most oppressed people were women. With the fantasies of Joan the ark, I often imagined what happened in the virgin birth. God (nature) allowed Mary to reproduce by herself. Some reptiles have this ability but they are females who produce genetic replicas. Mary had a daughter, who disappeared during …
Federal Prison Jargon of Isolation – Charlie Castillo
5/3/20 (Daughter's Graduation day) Serving my first prison sentence (and a federal one at that) I've come to learn and accept that this is a different world with its own codes/laws (spoken & unspoken) amongst prisoners and staff. The hardest is trying to communicate the flaws and injustices that goes on in here. You'd think …
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Prizon Grapheetee Zen – Charlie Castillo
Recreated on paper 5/23/20 (Son's Birthday) While in isolation, I had cell rotation (a Federal Security measure where inmates rotate cells every 21 days - at least), and thinking about an inmate who had just killed himself and how I didn't have the money to call my son and tell him I love him on …
Rorschach’s Secret Weapon – Charlie Castillo
12/11/2019 In prison staff can get away with putting prohibitions on almost anything, in the name of Security. Claims of bats and spiked poles made out of paper, keeps a person from getting a sufficient amount of paper. An inmate must recycle staples and scotch tape. Isolation is a vacuum where a prisoner has one …
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