Dear Tim, Brother, Solitary Architect
This week we had a meeting with Amnesty International. It was good of them to give us time. You said:
"I've been incarcerated for over a quarter of a century, I've been on death row, I've been subjected to more than the human mind could imagine."
I showed the all work we've been doing, including this drawing about solar panels #ProtectTheEgg is contributing towards. You couldn't see any of the images because you were phoning in from prison. You said the presentation was good. Thank you. But the whole time I presented, I kept thinking of that line: I've been subjected to more than the human mind could imagine.
Later you said:
"I'm still fighting the good fight...I often feel like I'm drowning...I fight to abolish the death penalty on all fronts...I'm gonna always fight capital punishment, and I'm gonna always fight to abolish it."
With you all the way, brother. Onwards.
-SK 26/03/25
I put the mirror in the box for Governor Newsom. For a split second its glass caught the broken shadow of Tim’s past, “more than the human mind can imagine”, before reflecting once again, my room, London’s sun.
‘Mirrors to their faces’, Tim had said.
-SK 01/04/25
Dear Tim, Brother,
Here’s your diptych in a church.
I’ve started emailing the press release with your open letter to California Governor, Gavin Newsom.
“These eleventh hour, mirror-based actions set the stage for political leaders to step up and do the right thing. Those who oppose the death penalty are watching, waiting with bated breath; for they know as California goes, so goes the nation. Consider this artwork a plea - a call to action - an incessant Hail Mary.” -TY