Sacralizers made from everyday objects to protect the inner from the outer

Viktor Pivovarov: "Sacralisers", 1979.

Sacralisers are special protective devices for guarding the "inner" against the "outer".

Sacralisers may be the most ordinary household objects. Equipped with a sacraliser (a frying pan hung on the nose, say, and shoe brushes on the ears), one may appear in the most "contaminated" public and spiritual spaces and remain protected from dangerous invisible radiation.

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