Paint Me a Road Out of Here Trailer OV

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00:00No one and nothing is safe in a prison, even that painting.

00:07This painting is worth millions of dollars. I don't even know it's there.

00:13I wanted to do something for the women's house of detention on Rikers Island.

00:19Young, young, young women were going to prison.

00:22One girl said, I want to see a road leading out of here.

00:27The painting is called For the Women's House.

00:29Almost every single profession in that painting was not open to women in 1971.

00:34These are visual affirmations of what women are capable of when they're supported.

00:40This is hope right on the doorstep of profound hopelessness.

00:44I had an opportunity to go back into the prison where I was incarcerated

00:48and connect with people in a way that I wish someone was able to connect with me.

00:52Anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.

00:55Art making was my outlet to reimagine my own self.

00:59As a person who was incarcerated 20 years and an artist,

01:02I love the idea of creating something for women to be more seen.

01:07In our prison, the mirrors will actually fall.

01:09We're not going to allow you to see yourself in full.

01:12And then when incarcerated people leave.

01:14They struggle with identity.

01:16That day I happened to look at the wall and I see nothing.

01:19I wonder what happened to the painting.

01:21Oh my God, they painted over it.

01:24Someone painted the painting.

01:26You better do something quick.

01:28I called the warden.

01:30She said, we don't have time to worry about a painting.

01:32Do they have a right to continue to add it?

01:35What's going to happen when the wrecking balls come through

01:37and this beautiful piece of art is gone?

01:40Art is disruptive. Art disrupts lazy thinking.

01:43These are among the most important paintings of the 20th century.

01:47History had to catch up with faith.

01:48You're no longer just doing it for you.

01:50Art gives us permission to imagine a world beyond what currently exists.

01:56They want these women following for the women's house out of there.

02:00You need to be making a statement about that.