F23374 The Hole / Free Tim Young - May 2025

In January 2025, I made a 1:50 scale model of Tim’s cell at San Quentin. It suddenly hit me that its volume was roughly equivalent to a medium sized hen’s egg. I didn’t know Tim then, but I sent this revelation to him along with the note below.

Egg (Anda)

I rarely have a plan. I’ll be cooking the kids eggs for breakfast. The form of the egg will get lodged in my mind. Later, scraping shells off the plate, my interest is aroused once more. I seize it. Draw an egg obsessively. In section, plan, elevation. From multiple perspectives. 

The fact that the 3D surface of an egg unrolled into a 2D plane looks like two spiral stairs winding into infinity, preoccupies me for weeks. No one else shares my excitement.

‘Dim’ (ডিম) = word for egg in Bangla. I make a new word: 

Dimspool (ডিমspool) - noun - a three (or more) dimensional space, volume, object or entity, unrolled into a 2D planar surface. 

I sense that one day, this word will come back into my work. But I don’t know how. 

3 years later: Professors Saibaba and Teltumbde are confined in the notorious Anda Circle high security cell, India. I ask audiences in Germany to sign letters calling for their release.

What does Anda mean? 

It means egg.

(June 2022, SK, iPhone notes)

F23374 - The Hole - Free Tim Young

"I've been incarcerated for over a quarter of a century, I've been on death row, I've been subjected to more than the human mind could imagine." - Tim Young, meeting with Amnesty International, March 2025

“the key to Hal’s idea was time. A white hole is a black hole with time reversed. But is such a reversal really possible? … A dropped egg does not bounce. Past and future are different.” - Carlo Rovelli, White Holes, Inside the Horizon

“Eyes on the horizon” - TY