The Art of the Lab Room Floor

"Lab Room Floor"
copyright Lynn Schirmer (reproduced with permission)

Of all the crimes of the National Security State we're not supposed to discuss, mind control - specifically, mind control induced by ritual abuse and torture - is the one most people don't need telling to keep quiet about.

The subject is so beyond most realms of our experience, and the subject matter, and its implications, so disturbing, it's easier and more respectable to pretend it's not there. Denial may be a comforting fiction, but it revictimizes survivors, and worse: it ensures the abuse perpetuates itself, and towards an end we can only imagine.

Lynn Schirmer is a survivor of cult and state torture, and an artist whose work is a testament to America's most awful truths.



Journal drawing, copyright Lynn Schirmer (reproduced with permission)

"A lab programming session: The intention is to associate the vortex image with the memory of a cult torture experience (the image in the cloud) to create a trigger effect. The trigger can then be used to limit the mobility of the alter, blocking access inside the system. It also can produce a general state of fear because of the ubiquitousness of the symbol.

"In this scene are some standard fixtures for early training sessions: a modified (electrified) Skinner box to the left, portable E.C.T. machine for compliance, P.E.T. or later E.E.G. for monitoring brain activity (keeps track of which alter is being trained), intravenous for drugs and viewing window."

Visit Lynn's site here to see more examples of her art, in higher resolution, and to read more of her words.


"Rescue"
copyright Lynn Schirmer (reproduced with permission)