A collection of play objects, connected directly to the childs body by a dress. Inspired by four mental illness syndromes, free translated into toys. each dress tells his own story: the imaginary friend tells about a dress with a big bow at the end of the skipping rope, so the child can choose it’s own friend while connecting the rope to a permanent object, for instance a tree. The compulsion neuroses dress has sleeves that flit into a skipping rope, so the child is basically forced to move in the same, certain way. Chase fear is a toy that follows and chases the child everywhere it will go. And collective anger is about a big bunch of stuffed toys. They can be connected to each other and to the dress by knotting their long arms or skinny bodies.
The appearance refers in a fine way to a strait-jacket: it closes at the back with big bows, and because of the clinical colour.

[ photographer : marleen kuipers ]