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"Family," by Andy Crouch and Nathan Clarke
You can find creativity in the most surprising of places.
As part of the Global Conversation we were in a Central American prison filming the stories of gang members—some awaiting trial, others serving life sentences. In what should have been the most oppressive of locations (and there was much that made it so) these young men still had a creative impulse. Not only had they marked up their bodies with all sorts of imaginative tattoos, they also cobbled together the few supplies they could access in prison to create art. Their goal? Sell these crafts in order to support children in their community. Sometimes the we see the most interesting creations when resources are limited.
Nathan: