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The mysterious coffins of Arthur’s Seat
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Jar of pickled moles from the Grant Museum of Zoology, University College London. (Image: xtinalamb, via Flickr. Click image to go to source)
Prisoners’ Inventions Project by Temporary Services
Tattoo gun invented by prisoners. A collaboration between prisoner Angelo and artist collective Temporary Services. (Click image to go to artist website).
Agnes Richter’s embroidered straitjacket
Straitjacket embroidered by asylum patient Agnes Richter in the 1890s. (Image: This Is Not Modern Art tumblr)
Agnes Richter was a German seamstress held as a patient in an insane asylum during the 1890s. During her time there, she densely embroidered her straitjacket with words, undecipherable phrases and drawings which documented her thoughts and feelings throughout her time there. This remarkable object was collected by Hans Prinzhorn, a psychiatrist who ardently collected the artwork of his patients at a Heidelberg psychiatric hospital in the early 20th century. Continue reading
