Ojore Lutalo

Ojore Lutalo was released from Trenton State Penitentiary in 2009 after serving 28 years—22 of those years in solitary confinement because of his political beliefs and activism. In order to keep his sanity during his imprisonment, he abided by a strict regimen of physical exercise, meditation, and study. Over the years, he began creating collages as a way to maintain his sanity and to convey the physical and emotional reality he experienced in solitary confinement. While in isolation, Lutalo created a wide range of political art documenting his experience and the plight of other radical imprisoned activists, as well as techniques of psychological and physical torture used in solitary confinement units