During the Victorian era in Germany,an ex-seamstress and an inmate in an asylum,Agnes Ricter stitched into virtually every inch of the jacket she created from her institutional uniform.Agnes’s embroidered writing was so profuse that much of the text was hard to disinherited.Prases such as’my jacket’ and ‘my white stockings’however can be seen clearly.The piece of work is deeply personal and also obsessive.
The jacket is part of the Prinzhorn collection at the university in Heidelberg in Germany which holds more than 5,000 works created by patients in psychiatric hospitals in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
