You and Me
YOU AND ME: Comparulos and Lamaldita, 2008
Through written correspondence and architectural renderings of a living space, “You and Me”, is a project that compares a day in the life of two siblings – one who lives in prison and one who lives in freedom. Lamaldita engraves a letter of her brother and one of herself upon two fabricated walls. The inscription describes their daily existence. One description is told from a Security Housing Unit (SHU) at Corcoran State Prison in a manner similar to carving hatch marks on inner-walls and the other from the Mission district in a careless free style. Lamaldita creates a comparative scaled blueprint of her apartment bathroom and the prison cell her brother is forced to call home, bringing attention to the physical confinement of imprisonment and what a free society takes for granted.
[1. Top images: These are photographs depicting the installation’s overview, envelop and letter from Jose Negrete.]
[2. Here the photographs depict live performance during the opening reception of the show where I am writing my story on the wall representing my bathroom. ]
[3. These photographs shows live performance where I am wearing a similar outfit as Jose was forced to used and writing in the wall representing his prison cell. ]
[4. Photographs shows audiences interacting with installation after the performance. ]
