Daphne Lovell
STICKS AND STONES
My work, using video, photography and drawing, is about relationships, and in particular how we react to the British Police. I had the opportunity to spend a week with the Police last year, during which time I witnessed the reaction of people when stopped by a Police Officer, when anger can become rage, in turn producing an incoherent and sometimes bestial reaction in an otherwise mild mannered person.
I use a single word for each drawing, repeating it over and over again. The words are those that are used either at or about Police Officers. The size of the letters is small, but together they create a much larger image as the letters written one over the other become a single entity, illustrating how small becomes large, and how words become incoherent when shouted in anger.
My photographs are of shouted obscenities. The models are my friends; the simple act of shouting at my camera shows the change, in the blink of a lens, that happens to a mouth when using verbal aggression. The video shows images of the riot control training undertaken by the Police, when ordinary men and women are transformed into unrecognisable enforcers.
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