West Park (opened in the 1920s and closed in the 1990s) was, as David Cochrane has said, envisioned as “the last great asylum built for London’s insane”.

Housing over 2000 psychiatric patients at one time, it now lays abandoned, awaiting redevelopment, a favourite destination for the contemporary pastime of urban exploration. Forsaken medical apparatus and ex-patients’ personal items bear witness to the history of this once complex social space.

The viewer is invited to contemplate the metaphorical implications for both mental health and institutionalisation in a broader sense