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      About 14 years ago, I found myself in car with my friend Mark Loughney. I picked him up randomly as he was completing a hike through Dunmore, PA, and we decided to hit a meeting. He had a backpack & supplies, but the pack wasn't filled with granola. It was unexpectedly filled with many insects, and foraged beatles collected with great care, and affection. We discuss this today, beatles being a species he puts intense focus on expressing in his art.
 Our connection with each other was immediate, and also facilitated by a friend we both loved and lossed this year. Our friend Chris passed before Mark was released from prison, and their planned reunion never happened. In the atmosphere of grief Mark was released from prison with another distinct problem most newly free men don't encounter. He was famous. This fame rose from his unique, skilled and empathetic portrait art he expressed inside. This seemly started as a way in which he can combat a growing desire to take his own life in prison.
We also discuss the unlikely voice on NPR that saved him one afternoon in his cell, and propelled him into a direction of portraiture Art. In this practice of immersing himself in the details of other inmates faces he had an awakening. What can one wake up to by intensely studying other peoples faces and drawing that image?
  It's funny to think our faces are essentially objects for others to experience. We never get to experience reality from the context, and optics of our own faces. What was it about getting lost in the details of others' inmates faces that brought a tidal wave of empathy and purpose for Mark.....
I think he tells us clearly today that the idea of "subject & object" disappears in this deep focus, and one only can experience the moment when creating this type of portraiture. Time is intangible when existing in this flowstate, even in prison. It was here that Mark found connection and a new purpose.
Mark’s Show at currently at Brown University
https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2022/09/marking-time-art-in-the-age-of-mass-incarceration-comes-to-campus?fbclid=IwAR3_qtM2_-tLjcaRfXVvAcDORVicCOLrMr2lhMZAuq2x9CvpsfWDQ-1-Jss

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