Devolution Magazine

A piece about the Death Chair Confessions is featured in the latest issue of Devolution Magazine.

Many thanks to Nickie Hobbs (Editor of Devolution Mag) for her support.

Low-fi raw data

Raw still – Closure

Raw still – Lip Biting

Raw stills

Subject 13- Still images

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More still images can be viewed by following the Photo Gallery link (located in the right hand column)

The words of Bessie Smith

I love the old Blues players of yesteryear. They were wonderful storytellers with their songs of heartache, woe, secrets and pain so when I think of The Death Chair Confessions, I hear the voice of Bessie singing in my head. 
It’s a shame there is no footage of her singing this song but Dinah Washington sang it many years later. It doesn’t have the same dark and gritty, soulful sound that was the great Bessie Smith but still…. here is Send Me To The ‘Lectric Chair

A poem

Late last night, someone sent me a poem written in response to The Death Chair Confessions.
I’m incredibly moved and at a loss for words…

It’s just you and I in this eerie silence,
sick curiosity, slight resent.
Dare I move a little closer to you,
or sit staring with contempt.
Your posture strong yet arrogant,
and leather chains to bind.
A crown without the thorns you bare,
to place on a delirious mind.
What secrets do you hold within,
tales of evil, sorrow, regret.
Of many man who confessed their sin,
and in turn paid their debt.
How many prayed to heavens high,
forgiveness, pleas and song.
And how many prayed their innocence,
when the verdict served them wrong.
But I will not place myself upon your lap,
when you search for stories new.
For my closet bares no skeletons,
so neither friend nor foe are you.

-M.Hardy

Video Blog: The Beginnings of The Death Chair Confessions

First ever video blog: A little background information into the art project The Death Chair Confessions and how the whole idea was conceived.

 

You can read more about the experience here: First video blog and behind The Death Chair Confessions

Death Chair subject 08

 

Still image of subject 08