Elva's Ride

Found in an abandoned asylum, this wheelchair has been stripped of its synthetic parts, power coated white and put back together.  Its upside-down position alludes to the fact that the person who used it may have been “dumped” at the asylum. The chair is now abandoned, did she perish behind locked doors? 

Scrawled across the chair’s back in thick, black permanent marker are letters that spell the owner’s name, Elva Whitwell. Did she feel the chair was a blessing or a curse? Did it provide restrictive movement in an already constrained environment, or did it give her a sense of freedom? How did Elva end up in an asylum? What was her offense?