If you have a strong connection to your stuffed Pooh bear, you’d better look away now. In knitwork artist Patricia Waller’s Broken Heroes series, now up at Berlin’s Galerie Deschler, which we recently spotted over at We Heart, your childhood heroes have fallen on some hard times — Bert is scruff-faced on the street and Ernie-less, Superman has made a serious miscalculation in his navigation, and we’re not even sure how Spider-Man got into that position. Waller’s witty pieces range from lighthearted to incredibly dark, but they’re all imbued with a twisted commentary on the one-dimensional personas of pop culture standbys. Click through to be shocked by how far cartoons can really fall, and then if you haven’t had enough, head over to Waller’s website to see more of her work.
Image credit: Patricia Waller
Image credit: Patricia Waller
Image credit: Patricia Waller
Image credit: Patricia Waller
Image credit: Patricia Waller
Image credit: Patricia Waller
Image credit: Patricia Waller
Image credit: Patricia Waller
Image credit: Patricia Waller
Image credit: Patricia Waller