Project 84
Stunning installation on the roofs of the Good Morning and ITV Studios by Mark Jenkins and Sandra Fernandez to highlight the issue of male suicide. The work consists of 84 figures to represent the 84 male suicides in Britain per week. The 12 figures on the Good Morning studio reflect the 12 men a day who kill themselves. The figures are dressed in ordinary clothes and their heads covered in draw string hoodies. It’s uncanny how the clothes gentle blow in the breeze making them look more real and alive. I found the work very moving and thought provoking. You read the figures in a paper and just move on to the next articles but actually seeing 84 figures and that that only represents one week of deaths is shocking.