C FAUSTO CABRERA
From paper pulped out of prison records to poems shaped by survival, Cabrera explores the inherited weight of trauma, survival, and accountability. His practice moves between studio and community, merging creative expression with the real-world work of transformative justice. Each project, no matter the container invites viewers to slow down, witness, and reconsider what healing can look like when art becomes both ritual and responsibility.
Selected Fellowships & Recognition
Purpose
The story did not end with my release. I continue to use my art & my voice as tools of liberation. Each exhibition, workshop, and public conversation is part of an ongoing effort to confront the realities of mass incarceration and to advocate for pathways home. This work is driven by the belief that transformation must extend beyond the individual, reaching toward collective healing, accountability, and the possibility of freedom for those still waiting to be seen.
Inherited Scars Collection
The Inherited Scars Collection is a living body of work born from a somatic ritual of transformation. Trauma-bearing paperwork is shredded, soaked in a sweetgrass elixir, pulped, and hand-pulled into new sheets of paper as substrate for a new narrative.
The collection unfolds across several interconnected series. The Seen Series bears witness to those whose stories have too often been reduced to records and labels, restoring humanity through portraiture and presence. The Road to Freedom Series traces the long emotional and spiritual movement from captivity toward restoration, healing, and self-determination. The Shredded Symbols Series expands the process into a broader visual language, deconstructing the signs, documents, and inherited systems that have shape identity and harm. Indelible Marks turns inward, exploring the permanent impressions left on the body, memory, and spirit, while asking what remains after transformation.
What began as a personal act of survival has expanded into a larger meditation on memory, healing, and futurity. The Inherited Scars Collection no longer speaks only to what was endured, but to what can be built beyond it…an insistence that the past may shape, but doesn’t control…
Explore the Journey
From prison walls to Museum Halls...
C Fausto Cabrera has been on a journey of healing and redemption, which is on display as his apology letter to the world; anyone willing to listen and reflect. He is honored to be an ambassador for possibility & accountability.
Inherited Scars Collection
On going...
The Inherited Scars collections continues through evolving installations that transform records of confinement into handmade works of reflection and repair. The Road to Freedom series in on permanent display at Damascus Way Golden Valley location as a living archive of return, while the forthcoming Indelible Marks series expands the practice into deeper personal terrain with an upcoming exhibition at Westminster Presbyterian Church.
Damascus Way ReEntry
The Senior Director of
Transformative Justice
Cabrera is the Senior Director of Transformative Justice & is lead architect of the Transformative Justice Practitioners Academy, designing programs that translate restorative principles into practical pathways for accountability, healing, and community integration.
Shredded Symbols series
On Going...
Expanding the process into a broader visual language, we all have an inheritance to deconstruct. Shredded Symbols is a collaboration with those who have been locked up by different systems.
Writing for Change Workshop
Upon Request
Cabrera has a plethora of writing and art workshops available upon request. From simple sketching, to playful idea generation, to collective poetry illustrations…
CFC Photography
Upon Request
CFC Photography is driven by instinct, authorship, and creative control. I’ve shot Runway 7 for NY Fashion Week and continue to slowly build a strong portfolio.
Most of my work lives in passion projects: constructed, intentional, and exploratory. I’m not interested in volume, just in images that hold weight. I keep a limited lane open for headshots and select collaborations, primarily within my circle. If the idea is strong or the energy is right, I’ll consider it.
If you’re looking for something inventive, something with a raw edge, or something that doesn’t feel manufactured reach out.
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