The Manic Vision of Y5/P5 - RAW VISION

The Manic Vision of Y5/P5

First published: Fall 1999

The tiny Paris apartment is up three flights of steep stairs. Inside, the main room is crammed with thousands of toy robots, eyeballs, skulls, skeletons, plastic weapons, space ships and Star Wars characters.

 

 

Hundreds of drawings are stuffed into piles of plastic carrier bags, and on the bed a punk Teddy bear, complete with badges, safety pins and a torn ear, lies on his own little pillow.

 


For the last 19 years this has been the home of Y5/P5. The place where his fantasies are reinforced, the isolated and personal world of his own alternative reality.
 

This is an article extract; read the full article in Raw Vision #28

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