This is the most horrifying thing I have seen all week.
I find it comes off more as a display of technique. Her other work, however, really is quite interesting.
Hey Boing Boing ā could you please put the picture under a cut or something, for the squeamish? Thanks!
āI decided to apply the process to my hand to make it appear calloused and work worn like that of a manual labourerā.
Because mutilating yourself is easier than, you know, doing manual labor.
āfor me itās about human valueā
Not recognizing the irony in a hipster artist āhonoringā honest hard work via self-mutilation.
Seems weird to like a comment calling something horrifyingā¦ but Iām right there with you.
Yeah thatās all we need, an emo seamstress.
I see this as no different from tattooing (and it is probably less permanent). There is nothing particularly horrifying about it. And to be fair, there are many types of bodily mutilation that society accepts. If people are squeamish about it, I think they are probably more disturbed by a new type of bodily mutilation, not the actual effects of it.
Seconded.
Also, Iād be more impressed if sheād sown her hand to some other part of her body or - better - someone elseās body.
But itās just so much more real than having a factory of Vietnamese kids embroidering their hands for fifteen cents an hour.
Eh, not sure I buy the why, but itās interesting and done well. She might get further with it as Etsy DIY zombie makeupā¦
Hah! And they said Morgellons was psychosomatic!
Is this causing her a disability in her work or social life? If not, then she isnāt mentally ill. Calling someone else mentally ill on the Internet without knowing anything other than a trivial amount about some art they are creating is pretty vile. I get why you do it: you support the stigma of mental illness when it is useful in an insult.
How is this more extreme than piercing or tattoos? Is it because you arenāt used to the sight of this non-permanent mutilation? Would you consider someone who pierced a piece of cartillage for the sole purpose of hanging a shiny piece of metal on it to be mentally ill (and then repeatedly interfered with healing so the hole would be stable)? Or would you consider a person who spent hours in a chair while another person shot various colored dyes under their skin to be mentally ill? But the person who sews thread into dead skin cells without causing permanent damage is the mentally ill one?
These days, digging ditches by hand is artisanal.
On the other hand, this work evokes the emotions of looking through most threads.
This is NOT artā¦itās self abuse, and I think itās disgusting and horrifying that anyone would do this to themselves.
I saw an incredible sunset last night, but I didnāt paint it because Iām not mentally disturbed, however.
I saw a really cool bird in flight this morning, but I didnāt take its picture, because Iām not mentally disturbed, however.
I saw an anguished form of a forlorn parent bursting with pathos, struggling to free itself from a block of marble, but I didnāt pick up a hammer and chisel because Iām not mentally disturbed, however.
In other news, did any of you actually READ the text, where she says itās going through the top layer of skin, not into the flesh? I remember doing stuff like this, just like she remembered it. It doesnāt hurt, because itās a like a controlled scrape. It certainly separate out the squickish from the non-squickish.
Whatās with all the pearl clutching? Itās a bit of thread through the top layer of dead skin. There wonāt be a trace of it left two weeks from now. Itās mutilation as much as nail biting is.
