The Hero project

Based on the theme “The Human Condition”, after visiting the old “Pauper Lunatic Asylum”, in Wakefield, I created this latex straight jacket. Inspired by the book “The Denial of Death” it symbolises the duality of the human soul in our belief that even past the death of the physical self the symbolic self will live on and the refusal to accept complete non-existence. It is a portrayal of the flesh as a restraint for the imagination, like a prison and a juxtaposition of the weakness of the body and the strength of the mind.

Materials used; liquid latex, syringes, ink, broken cds, old belt, wire modelling clay, photos, tissue paper, paracetamol.