Jan Hoek / Mental Superpowers sculpture and other textile artworks of

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

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Thinking Conditioning through Practice

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

Jan Hoek / Mental Superpowers sculpture and other textile artworks ofLady 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,