Driving Restraint
Modified race car safety harnesses with embroidered patches,
turnbuckles and hardware. approximately 8' x 16.5', 1998
Driving Restraint was included in the exhibition “Dromology: Ecstasies of Speed” curated by Marcia Tanner at New Langton Arts, San Franciso, CA 1998
Driving Restraint installed at New Langton Arts. San Francisco, CA 1998. The the three race car safety harnesses were attached to the wall using a system of mounts and turnbuckles. The turnbuckles were tightened to the point that all three harnesses became a single unit sprung tightly under maximum tension. If anyone had turned the safety quick release on any harness the system of belts would have dramatically collapsed. No one touched the release mechanism during the exhibition.
Terror/Ecstasy racing harness with turnbuckles and wall mounts, dimensions variable, 1998.
Details of three embroidered narrative patches, dimensions variable, 1998.
Text adapted from "all but my life" by Stirling Moss face to face with Ken W.Purdy, E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. 1963.
Embroidered text patch with warning on each harness.