Faceless Decision Makers (Your Fate is Sealed)

Faceless Decision Makers carefully considers the concepts of bureaucracy, power relations and organisation of society which ensure that power status quo remains unchanged.

I am especially interested in how the symbols of power can be translated into a visual metaphor.   ‘Your fate is sealed’ is one example of this – the idea of a stamp as a symbol of dehumanised, mechanical, faceless, self-perpetuating processes that lead to one of the only two possible outcomes – yes or no.

Faceless Decision Makers (Your Fate is Sealed)

Wax stamp sculptures Handle: foam board, painted and varnished, 66cm x 26cm Base plate: deep etched mild steel 1.2mm, 25cm diameter Fabricated with support from Steven Higgins

Faceless Decision Makers (Your fate is sealed)

Photoetching on Summerset 300gms, 49cmx51cm overall size, plate size 25cm diameter

Faceless Decision Makers (Your Fate is Sealed)

Photoetching on Summerset 300gms, 49cmx51cm overall size, plate size 25cm diameter

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Wax stamp sculptures Handle: foam board, painted and varnished, 66cm x 26cm Base plate: deep etched mild steel 1.2mm, 25cm diameter Fabricated with support from Steven Higgings