The text in this image refers to the chilling slogan "trust is good - but control is better" attributed to Felix Drezhinsky - the man responsible for security in the early days of the soviet state. This implications of this have always made my blood run cold even though I have never experienced the tyranny such a statement implies. I am lucky to live in Canada where the exercise of "state security" is not totalitarian and is tempered by democratic processes.

I cannot explain this work completely to you, but amongst other things, it is an argument against the crude "steering" of individuals towards institutional ideals. It is also an experimental, exotic "advertisment " addressed first to me (and then to others) which uses associative, poetic strategies in an effort to find a voice. The superimposed images juxtapose an individual and a workshop scene.





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