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Introducing

Sean, 38

Incarcerated:
13 years
Housed:
Attica Correctional Facility
Located in
Attica, New York
Sean, a man with a beard and extensive tattoos on his arms and neck, smiles while wearing a white t-shirt and a necklace.
October 22, 2025November 24th, 20251 min read

Art is life. That is my motto.

I taught myself how to draw since my incarceration to keep my mind level and avoid idle hands. When COVID came, I was introduced to acrylic painting. It became my escape from this reality in a much more influential way. It is my hope and my life. I enjoy painting realism, birds, and flowers, but I also like doing the non-traditional stuff like horror movie characters, zombies, and my own creations. Some of my fondest memories are from working in a tattoo shop, piercing people as others got tattooed. Art is life. That is my motto.

A painting of a scarecrow in a brown suit holding a jack-o'-lantern and a white sack, standing in a graveyard with tombstones and a crow.
A portrait of a woman with a gothic aesthetic, featuring a nose ring, a goatee, and bat tattoos on her neck, set against a green background with silhouettes of birds and thorny plants.
A stylized illustration of a woman with a dark hairdo and green eyes, wearing a purple bikini top. She has a spiderweb tattoo on her shoulder and a tattoo on her neck that reads 'HAPPY'. Red liquid, resembling blood, is dripping from her chest and shoulder. The background is pink with several black bats flying.

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