Discharged

I recreated my experiences of forcible hospitalization by the police as a crisis intervention. The room and hospital bed collaborated to strip my body of autonomy. The room is an extension of or allusion to the medical institution and, with the concrete, an
indicator of time. Through color, using wall base, and melamine as an element from hospitals for context, the room is in control to trigger a response. The bed restrained my body. The stickiness, roughness, and permanence of its concrete mattress restrains and reduces myself to that moment. Its guard rails a confinement and fuel for stigma. What remained of myself was freed retroactively. I gave myself a way out.