Aimee Wissman, The Joke’s on Them
Acrylic, homemade ink, chalk on stretched canvas, 48” x 48”
The artist on the piece: “Based off a Brandie Carlile lyric, "They come to kick dirt in your face, to call you weak, and then displace you, after carrying your baby on your back across the desert." It describes the intersection of my experience with incarceration and its impact on my expression of motherhood.”
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Aimee Wissman, The Joke’s on Them
Acrylic, homemade ink, chalk on stretched canvas, 48” x 48”
The artist on the piece: “Based off a Brandie Carlile lyric, "They come to kick dirt in your face, to call you weak, and then displace you, after carrying your baby on your back across the desert." It describes the intersection of my experience with incarceration and its impact on my expression of motherhood.”
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To display this piece in your space, just tell us about your wall
Aimee Wissman, The Joke’s on Them
Acrylic, homemade ink, chalk on stretched canvas, 48” x 48”
The artist on the piece: “Based off a Brandie Carlile lyric, "They come to kick dirt in your face, to call you weak, and then displace you, after carrying your baby on your back across the desert." It describes the intersection of my experience with incarceration and its impact on my expression of motherhood.”
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To display this piece in your space, just tell us about your wall
Aimee Wissman
“Wissman is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist and the co-founder of the Returning Artists Guild, a group of directly-impacted artists working together to end mass incarceration and build a free future for everyone.”