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“Fend” (Performance) - Football headguard,
Photos, Artist
1995 - 2001 |
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Concern for human rights has been a personal attribute
partially influenced by overheard conservations between my parents when I was a boy. I was surprised that even though my father generally voiced disapproval over my lacklustre performance in the home, private
conversations revealed an optimism that I would pull through.Also being the only boy in a family with 4 sisters allowed me to develop ideas (though fallacious at that stage) about victimhood.
Nevertheless, I genuinely feel for the plight of
minorities or victims.“Fend” took too
many years to find its form out of an un-named performance in 1995 to a Photo Documentation with the name “Fend” in 2001.This artwork referrs to the disappearance of a young lady on a nearby highway. I used photos of the ‘memory-trigger signs’ in conjunction with
a headguard associated with ‘men’s play’ to question where men should stand in relation to the safety of unguarded individuals in the community. |
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