Hooked in Paris
Not your average mermaid: Woman hangs herself on fish hooks in Paris shark protest
Alice Newstead, an artist and animal rights activist, painted herself silver before spearing the skin of her shoulderblades with oversized shark fishing hooks. Then, resting her feet in a harness, she was hoisted up into the air.She spent 15 minutes suspended in the window of a Lush Cosmetics store in the south of the capital, as passers-by walked along the busy boulevard, her skin stretched upward and streaked with blood.
