This drawing is fully symbolic. The hourglass has a woman trapped inside, in time and in sorrow, as though she is incarcerated. Everything about this woman is transforming. Her tears and hair turn to sand as she loses her old self and blossoms into something new. The sand falls to the bottom half of the hour glass and leaks out of the glass. As the sand leaks out, it transforms into a new and colorful butterfly. The woman’s time in prison transforms her inner self to a new and
This artwork was commissioned for the Empowerment Avenue exhibition The Only Door I Can Open: Women Exposing Prison Through Art and Poetry
