Gagged and blinded, the body switches to the other senses. Deprived of your human dignity, you go to survival mode. The remaining senses try to compensate for what the eyes no longer see, stress makes you like a trapped wild animal.
The similarity with Lady Justice is striking and distressing. She is also blindfolded but does not play any role in this dominance game, at most afterwards.
I made five of these sculptures and together there is a group dynamic. The way people always react to each other’s presence. But sometimes time ceases to be linear, and you see five movie stills from one person’s movie. But as soon as you notice that it is already passed. This keeps me interested, time is what you style if you want to show the human being in motion.
