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 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.
OP-ED BY TIM YOUNG, FEB 2025
FREE TIM YOUNG DIARIES: Art, Advocacy, and Architectural Dialogue by Sofia Karim & Timothy James Young. Click below to see our emerging work.
“Trump, Imperialism, and the Middle East” - Lecture by Stop The War Coalition
Speaker, Stephen Kapos, holds FREE TIM YOUNG sign.
Newcastle, 23.07.25
FTY postcards
LATEST!!! FREE TIM YOUNG AT BRADFORD LITERARY FESTIVAL.
Bradford, UK, folk mobilise for Tim Young, at samosa packet making workshop. 03/07/25
Free Tim Young & Bulldozer Genocide (human rights violations in India, Kashmir and Palestine - Bradford Literary Festival, 03/07/25
SEE - IT - CLEARLY ARCHITECTURE LAB
We have set up a design and research architecture lab. Tim Young is the Solitary Architect. We have begun to explore designs which range from Tim’s space-saving bed designs to social housing for the San Quentin prison site.
Tim’s Stack Bed design. Click here
JUNE 2025
FREE TIM YOUNG APPEARS AT GLOBAL MARCH TO GAZA
“The Global March to Gaza has united thousands of people from over 80 countries, and inspired millions more around the world, through a shared commitment to humanity. This is an urgent moral response to the forced starvation, bombing and suffering of over 2 million people at the hands of the Israeli government”.
March to Gaza, June 2025
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.
“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
Free Tim Young has turned into a global movement, with support from:
Bangladesh, Mexico, Ghana, Palestine, Sudan, Denmark, Germany, India, Hong Kong, Singapore, Morocco, Egypt, Chile, UK, US…
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
