Jan Hoek / Mental Superpowers sculpture It brings to the fore

It brings to the fore how she employed fashion as a tool for bodily reinvention and art as a vehicle for personal and political expression — highlighting how she rejected categorization to embrace hybridity

sexual frustration and voyeurism

It are all pieces of a puzzle that doesn’t need to be resolved

and other textile artworks of Klaas Rommelaere are assemblages of hundreds of images packed together

contributing the essay “So Many Dark Gifts” to this photo-rich volume exploring the group’s varied

Jan Hoek / Mental Superpowers sculpture It brings to the foreLady GaGa, Diane Arbus, Vincent van Gogh, Kurt Cobain the list of geniuses with mental health issues is long and well known. But how do the two relate to one another? Or, to rephrase the question, can a mental illness also be seen as a superpower? To answer this question Jan Hoek spent three months living in a psychiatric hospital in Brooklyn, collaborating with the hospitals clients and other unique individuals he met in New York. This comic book,