In the summer show work on the idea of ‘body armor’, salt armor covers the inner essence of people on another level. It is a kind of “chain” wound around people's bodies. Therefore, I want to rethink the language and emotions conveyed by the form of ‘shackles’. When we talk about things like ankles, some people care about what kind of person will wear ankles, in general, is a 'criminal' and a 'punished person'. But when I researched for information about shackles, I was shocked to find that in Indonesia has only one psychiatrist for 300,000-400,000 people and only 48 mental hospitals in the whole country of 250 million. More than half of the institutions are in just four of Indonesia's 34 provinces. Government data show that 90 percent of people who may need mental health care, cannot get it.Due to the lack of medical standards, the way for local people to treat mental patients is to imprison them with ‘shackles’ to stop their destructive power. When I saw this report, sadness shocked me. In addition to being physically bound, is their spiritual world also bound?
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=RBa-wwcakHM&feature=emb_logo
For the masses with childhood traumatic experiences, we are always afflicted by past experiences. We are living in the shackles of such memories. "We are holding ourselves and being bound ourselves."（sketch by siyi）
So I want to recreate the scenes where people dragged on the heavy past and continued to move forward. I have collected several common ankle forms.
I initially thought about taking this form of a sphere later, but I thought that the more vivid expression is bound by the memories of the past, so I want to replace the part of the sphere with some scenes or some special objects.
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