"On the threshold of another trembling world"

Bobby Sand's, Hunger and How to make a Nation Disappear over on 3:AM Magazine.

Split knuckles bathed in warm water. An orderly sloshing bleach and urine back into the cells. A snowflake melting on the skin of a prisoner. Each close-up is harrowing and oddly beautiful in equal measure. Treat us like animals the prisoners wordlessly say and we will actualise this for you. It is almost an artistic statement in itself and the prisoner’s almost artists, holding the cracked mirror up to a rotten society with the only things they have left - their bodies and their waste. Piero Manzoni may have done it for satirical effect and the money, the blanketmen paradoxically did it for their dignity.

See also an excellent interview on there between Andrew Gallix and Tony O'Neill, Melissa Mann's "We Are At War" plus Andrew Stevens talks to Danny King.