Marian Henel and His Perverted Rugs (NSFW) - Flashbak

These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who spent 32 years as a patient of the Hospital for Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders in Branice, Poland. Admitted to the hospital’s Psychopathological Art Expression workshop in the1 960s. in 1968 Henel was tasked with creating tapestries based on provided designs. But he began to create art with his own motifs, including macabre masks, nurses in uniform, nudes, ejaculation, menstruation, urination and defecation, hanged bodies, witches, ghosts, human-animal creatures and monstrous, worms, owls, bats, beetles and snakes all set in idyllic landscapes rich with elaborate botanical ornamentation.