paper, thread, ink; 14×30”

“Alexai Navalny was a Russian corporate lawyer-turned-prisoner-of-conscience. Imprisoned despite the cry from the European Court of Human Rights, Navalny died from malnourishment, possible poisoning, and medical neglect. The quote on the streams of paper come from his memoir, Patriot, written in prison.”

ARTIST BIO: Anne Skove is an artist and writer living in her hometown of Cincinnati. Once upon a time, her great grandparents immigrated from Lviv to Cleveland. Her great grandfather had been in a Siberian prison for the crimes of being Jewish and of being a journalist.