Confinement is an installation about the standard U.S. practice of shackling women in prison to their hospital beds during labor and delivery and the forced removal of their children.

2009

Three abstract female figures are attached by chains to the wall. Female babies float away from the figures to symbolize both the forced removal of babies from women who are incarcerated and the legacy of absent female role models that incarcerated women leave for their girl children. There is rope suspended in front of the pregnant figures to represent prison bars.

Confinement was part of The Prison Project, a multi-disciplinary event at the Little Room in Pittsburg, KS.

Confinement was photographed by Rod Dutton.