Jan Hoek / Mental Superpowers sculpture A quest for confusion

A quest for confusion

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

So his statement stuck

translation and transmission’

Thinking Conditioning through Practice

Jan Hoek / Mental Superpowers sculpture A quest for confusionLady 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,