In some cells, inmates had managed to cover their flaking walls with posters, bits of magazines and even shopping bags, but they said bug infestations and rodents were common.
You could cut up bits of magazines and create collages on a wall, preferably a small one, unless you have a lot of time and if you are patient.
Scanning results in English were heartening as I was able to scan a little bit of magazine text and receive an acceptable response but once I tried something in another language, the app choked.
Many of the exhibits are nostalgia-laden photographs that people have found, as well as flyers, bits of clothing, magazine articles.
"I noticed at the end of the day that the only bits of the magazine left over were the adverts - no one seemed to want those".
"I'm a painter," he says, combing through a stack of collaged canvases bearing bits of Mexican magazine ads, street flyers and layers of intricate stencils and silkscreens.
Each day, recognizing her grandchild's hunger for learning, his grandmother provided him with the little bits of old newspaper and magazine clippings that served as packaging for the sugar and other food products at the market.
"My wife is a little freaked out about it, being from California," Fish said, adding, "Stacey went to shop quite a bit last night, got a bunch of magazines and flashlights.
Lele works for a variety of magazines and shoots a bit of everything.
Many depict photographs and other objects suspended from metal structures that apparently float in space, as in "A Reoccurring Pattern," for which Ms. VanDerBeek collaged magazine photographs, bits of fabric, her own family snapshots and other talismans against a chain-link fence.
To celebrate its 25th anniversary, the center is showing this suite of nearly 200 previously unseen, equal-size sheets of paper to which Mr. Kelly has attached hundreds of doodles or fragments -- big, small, drawn and painted -- along with other spared trifles and scraps (clipped magazine photographs, bits of paper picked from the street).
