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Trichotillomania, 1998
Materials: Hair, pins, paper, plastic box, chocolate box, cigar box
Highly commended, Helen Lempriere Exhibition at Artspace, Sydney
Trichotillomania is the psychiatric term for a disorder of impulse control, where a person pulls out their own hair, strand by strand. These three small boxes contain assortments of strangely twisted hair; in one, the coiled, tortured hair is pinned out at regular intervals in a cigar box, like an array of insect specimens.
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