Nobody told me (there would be days like these)

Aran Straight Jacket 1996 (42inch medium to large)

Referencing years of psychoanalytical research into both his own and a wider social pathology, Tyszko’s practice often employs deeply personal and familial tropes. Here we see childhood memories of a maternal domesticity and  fireside knitting of family jumpers, warped through a blurred lens of  early drug addiction and cyclical depression into an almost perfect dysfunctional commodity.

An impossible object(ion), an Aran Straight Jacket, a failed yet comforting psychiatric restraint (with no restraint possible).