Breath control art, plastic bags or thin transparent film. Part IV
Opaque bodybags vs Transparent ones

Bound in a latex cocoon

See Part I, Part II and Part III.

In Part III we were discussing transparent and opaque masks. Let’s move further to transparent body bags. What usual body bags provide we all know. One tight solid cocoon. As with masks the transparency adds some drama and reality to the show.

Look at the first picture below and play with your imagination. First of all, “remove” the bag completely. And? Nothing extraordinary. Just a bound naked girl.

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Opaque bodybags vs Transparent ones”

Self-bondage in a vacuum bed as art and Lawrence Malstaf

Lawrence Malstaf and transparent vacuum frame self-bondageThe idea struck Lawrence’s mind when he was vacuum cleaning his atelier. Two transparent PVC sheets, a frame suspended from the ceiling, two tubes and a vacuum cleaner, you get in, the air gets sucked out. Pretty simple, yet effective and spectacular. The project got the name “Shrink”.

During Lawrence’s installations any visitor could experience “what that means to be caught in a space, in a snowstorm or be vacuum packed”.

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