Huwe Burton Said Truth Freed Me, Music Kept Me Sane While I Waited
The title of this work comes directly from the wrongfully convicted individual's statement to Green. Huwe Burton describes a first meal of squash lasagna at Red Rooter in Harlem. Burton was sixteen years old when police forced a confession for rape and murder of Burton's own mother. The officers involved are known to have used coercion to obtain false confessions in at least one other case. This first meal painting of a wrongfully convicted person is a collaboration with the exoneree, the Innocence Project, Center on Wrongful Convictions and Julie Green.
2019
40 x 47.3 in.
acrylic and glow-in-the-dark paint on Tyvek (sewn together)