Sunday 15 December 2013

Image_1887, Bedlam Garden

Image_1887, Bedlam Garden © Richard Ansett 2013




































Originally named Bedlam, as an English abbreviation of Bethlehem or ‘house of bread’, the word has became attributed to the confinement of 'lunatics', and the colloquial understanding of it as a ‘house of confusion’ and uproar. This image is recorded within the walls of a garden specially created for the patients of the Maudsley Psychiatric Hospital, London. 

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