(Work in Progress)

Currently Florida, also known as the Sunshine State, has the second largest death row inmate population in the country with 394 inmates serving time.

The few images seen here (out of the 394 total that were made) were created to represent the 394 inmates currently incarcerated on Florida's death row. They were made directly from the mugshots of each inmate currently serving time there. The variation of color and tonality is a direct result of each individual inmate's portrait with no additional color manipulation- done so by simply eliminating all detail within each mugshot. By doing so a spectrum of color washes are all that is left, serving both as a roster of Florida's death row and a collection of beautiful color fields meant to be seen together as a whole. For this piece I am very loosely drawing from the concept of Holism - a notion that a whole is made up of a pattern, not contained by the parts but who's parts help ultimately define them. These individual color fields seen together create a patchwork quilt of sorts- of individuals living in one existence, coming from a larger society who in one way or another helped ultimately shape them. By creating these color washes out of mugshots, the audience is left to look upon a less confrontational and more digestible reality, allowing the work to reach a larger audience.

**Additional states with highest death row inmate population are:
California with 701 inmates and Texas with 330
(http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org)