reflections
The elegance and base allure of this pencil drawing appealed to my impure heart. The drawing appeared as shown above in the Art for Justice section of Washington's finest paper, Street Sense. But the drawing had been accidentally cropped on the left. In the original drawing, the full reflection of the dancer is visible to the left, as well as further to the left the right side of a piano.
The artist, Thomas, is a prisoner in the Wende Correctional Facility in New York State. That's a maximum security prison that imprisons only men. On the back of the drawing, he explained it this way:
different points of view, back view, and reflection in mirror, front view, also, exercise in light and darkness (value scale) and shadows!
That, for most of us, is a true depiction of the human psyche.
