Artist Jeff Barnett-Winsby's attraction to persons exiled to the fringes
of society led him to photograph in Lansing Prison, in Lansing, Kansas.
A year into his project, he found out that in February 2006, a convicted
killer named John Maynard had escaped from the prison, concealed inside
a dog crate, with the help of a volunteer who worked at the facility
named Toby Young. Maynard and Young, operating under the aliases Mark
West and Molly Rose, were captured two weeks later, after a high-speed
chase, in Tennessee. Illustrated in color and black and white, this book
is a collection of Barnett-Winsby's photographs of and correspondence
with the two lovers, both before and after the escape, and a unique
record of an extraordinary tale of escape. "I have always been
fascinated with loneliness and the outsider in society," Barnett-Winsby
writes, of his attraction to West and Rose's extraordinary story.
"Growing up, I felt pretty out of it (who doesn't?) and was always in
trouble for something." His reconstructed narrative of their tale
constitutes a highly original portrait.