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Cerron Hooks: Drawings of death row

Learn more: People Most Proximate: Our Creativity

I have always loved to doodle, but here in my later years I have learned to respect the craft more. It’s like a new language I’m still trying to master. With it, in the future I hope to speak for more than just myself. Because I know what it feels like to not have your story told. To barely be recognized. Seen, but as quiet as a defendant.  

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Cerron’s drawings of the day room and a death row cell

Cerron Hooks has lived on North Carolina’s death row since 2000.

Filed Under: Creative Expressions, People Most Proximate

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