Welcome to our Art Gallery
The first one is a portrait of a patient wearing a China Doll while the other two illustrate some of the restraint techniques in use within the Institute.
They really brighten the place up, don't they? That's Vega's speciality, continually improving the gallery and making the Institute a more colourful place. Well, one of his specialities but it's the only one that he uses these days as there's no call here for him to fight bulls or disembowel anyone ... Just kidding! Not to change the subject but you might like to take a look over here. This latest addition is something a bit different. I believe I mentioned Dr. ARNie does a bit of sketching of his own? Oh ... Well he does and during a recent therapy session he sketched a portrait of Brande, one of our more infamous patients whose history I'll get into later, while talking to her. He didn't have any particular plans for displaying his sketch but by chance Vega saw him working on it and offered to touch it up with a bit of colour so it would be worthy of hanging in the gallery. Dr. ARNie agreed and here you see the end results of their collaboration.
Moving along this display is a sculpture by our Doctor Sebastian done in the medium of Beta Latex. This is a material developed and currently exclusively used within the Chainsman Institute. The piece is entitled "Master and Students".
To be quite honest I should tell you the statues aren't solid Beta Latex. As a new and exclusive material and not being the easiest stuff in the world to make we would normally be reserving it for our institutional uses. But we had a batch that wasn't brewed quite right so it shouldn't be used on living tissue. We were going to dispose of it but Dr. Sebastian had chanced to see that Housekeeping was replacing some of the old mannequins used for initial restraint practise by new staff (they don't get tested on patients until they have completed the dummies course because we wouldn't want to subject our patients to what those dummies go through) and had an inspiration. So rather that be junked the faulty Beta Latex and the practise dummies were recycled into art. Waste not, want not. At any rate my original point was that since we vary the exhibits regularly and allow our staff to display their talents this is a popular place for the staff to take their coffee breaks. Shall we move on? There are a few more exhibits you might like to see. Over there is little niche dedicated to displaying staff photography. Would you like a closer look?
