Incarcerated Scholars Conference Art Gallery 2026

Learning in Motion

Antoine Boyce

Knox College, Peace and Justice Studies

Illinois

Mastery is assemble
through a learning curve of constant experience.
Maintaining the ways of expression
stretch along with time immeasurable spectrum.
As your body keep changing position,
strive to elevate your listening.
There’s many propositions
to question the concept of your decision.
Being cemented in certain thinking,
anchor the lack of discipline.
This clashing with intention,
the configuration of wisdom comes up missing.
We have to remember,
the process of every living organism is extension.
The moment you stop learning
life consist of no more giving.

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Artist Statement

This poem was inspired by just trying to tie together my previous ignorance to education along with my new found understanding to the wonders of life. Everything that has life has a common relationship to motion. I have come to learn that my earlier thought patterns formed from my environment had no growth or movement. So life could not have existed and I never would be able to move forward in that element. This poem to me was trying to describe a language of death while being exposed to life.

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