Lantern
Curio

19th Century American tin lantern. Call or email for larger photos and detail images.
H 12" x diameter 6"

i've been to hell and come back to tell the tale, saw the grisly workings of the system and escaped before they crushed me, too. i met the witch and saw what made her that way. it's a sick beast, this place for the sick and ailing, a machine gone awry, a veritable clockwork orange, tied up in its own paperwork, staff more defeated than its patients (because they can never leave). this place is riddled with fear (it spreads like a rash), and even if you can find a window, it won't open. you'll be admitted to unit 5: crisis, because everything here is a crisis, but don't worry, soon you'll be transferred to unit 7: addiction, where you'll be acclimated to the right drugs, and the first one is fear. you know it well already. but when they let you escape with your life, the world is before you, until you have to escape with your life again.

for now, let there be light.

j. s-o'c