TRAGIC TURN/ ARCHITECTURE OF DISAPPEARANCE / FREE TIM YOUNG
Tim Young is a wrongfully convicted prisoner on California's death row. I am undertaking a collaborative project with him through UC Santa Cruz. These diaries document the process. Further information on Tim’s case can be found on www.timothyjamesyoung.com
Tim’s cell at San Quentin measured 4.5’ x 10’. At scale 1:50 its volume is roughly equivalent to a medium sized hen’s egg. The interior of an egg would be a strange space to inhabit. No sense of floor, walls, up or down. Monotonous and scale-less, a sense of floating. Can shapes be happy or sad? I always thought the oval feels like a sad shape.
FREE TIM YOUNG DIARIES: Art, Advocacy, and Architectural Dialogue by Sofia Karim & Timothy James Young. Click below to see our emerging work.
“Dearest Sofia…Food for thought. A carton of eggs contains 12 eggs. If you spell out Free Tim Young there are 12 letters…See it clearly? What say you?”
- TY
Free Tim Young is a growing international movement. Hebron, West Bank, to Bombay, Rohingya refugee camps to Mexico City, to Accra, UK to US and more.
Click #ProtectTheEgg to learn more.
I’m 1 of More Than 600 People on CA’s Death Row. Newsom Must End Death Penalty.
Twenty-three states have abolished the death penalty. California should join them in ending state-sponsored executions.
SEE-IT-CLEARLY ARCHITECTURE LAB
SOCIAL HOUSING TYPOLOGIES. CLICK HERE
See-it-clearly Architecture Lab
Working on a design for a flat in London, with Tim. Click here
END THE GENOCIDE. FREE PALESTINE. FREE TIM YOUNG.
Boiling Eggs, Hebron City suburbs, West Bank - Free Tim Young
On Easter Sunday, Tim Young & Sofia Karim released Hail Mary. It included videos of boiling eggs sent by supporters from around the world. Including from Hebron, from a woman who describes their existence like this:
“I can't explain to anyone how we view the world today, how we preserve ourselves and appreciate the things around us. How we follow the news or hear and react to bombings. Yet, each time is different. We live and see. At the same time, if we have the opportunity to escape this reality, we live it to the fullest, celebrate small joys because there is no tomorrow, and remain as we are, the ones who were created from this land and to which we will return.” - 24/04/25, Hebron City suburbs, West Bank.
Updates: “Israel kills 45 in latest attacks on civilian shelters in Gaza.
“May the mirror's reflection cause you to pause, reflect.” TY, Hail Mary.
HAIL MARY / FREE TIM YOUNG, USA
Abolition Means No More War: FREE PALESTINE NOW!
“Prison industrial complex (PIC) abolitionists have always understood the work to dismantle the PIC to be connected to global movements against war, militarism, and colonialism. In the past few weeks, we’ve seen mass mobilization for solidarity with the Palestinian people as they face one of the deadliest assaults by the Israeli military in its history.” Critical Resistance, November 2023
HAIL MARY
“May the mirror's reflection cause you to pause, reflect”
END THE DEATH PENALTY, FREE TIM YOUNG
On Easter Sunday, 2025, Timothy James Young & Sofia Karim released Hail Mary an artwork addressed to Gavin Newsom, Governor of California. Click to see more.
GLOBAL SOLIDARITY - click to see more
22/03/25
Images of eggs arrive from Rohingya Refugee camp, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, in solidarity with Tim Young! Survivors of Myanmar’s genocide against Muslims, stand up for a prisoner on California’s death row. The photos were sent by Rohingya photographer Abul Kalam, who himself was previously jailed by the government of Bangladesh.
Rohingya Refugee Camp eggs, Cox’s Bazar, Free Tim Young
Photos by Abul Kalam
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Free Tim Young, Morocco.
Casablanca Street Café
Sacred Heart Cathedral, Casablanca
Marrakesh to Casablanca Train