Bus Crowd at Paddington (2011) Found images
Wimbledon Crowd: How to target your audience (2011) Ink, found images
Running Crowd - Paris Marathon 2006 (2011) Ink, found images
'The Individuals' 2011 commission for ArtLicks Issue 4
Image 1. Wimbledon Crowd - How to target your audience
"The disorganization of early capitalism produced a code of self-respect and mutual esteem riddled with contradictions. Society in part still lay in the shadows of the ancien regime, a society in which social position was sharply defined, and within state, army, and church there was a ladder to climb. Stendhal evokes the shadow cast by this old regime in The Red and the Black, whose protagonist, Julien Sorel, wuickly learns how to readjust his clothing, his speech, and his bodily comportment each time he takes a step up. Looking around him, however, Julien Sorel perceived these were no more than shadows; the driven and the greedy could bludgeon their way up, and no customs or manners could protect them if they fell. Sorel suffered therefore from anomie, in the form define by the sociologist Emile Durkheim as "rulelessness," the experience of someone in free fall, disorientated." pg 161-162 Bureaucratic Respect - Respect The Formation of Character in an age of Inequality - Richard Sennett (2003)
"Commodification means that you turn something into a product which has a money value. In the 19th century, commodities were made in factories by workers who were mostly exploited. But I created my interior thoughts as commodities, for the corporations that owned the board that I was posting to like compuserve or AOL. And that commodity was then sold on to other consumer entities as entertainment." - Carmen Hermosillo aka Humdog
Image 2. Running Crowd - Paris Marathon 2006
"The comparison between army and corporation crystallizes in the image of the bureaucratic pyramid. The image is so familiar that its radical import is easy to miss. It can assert raw power over talent and merit - economically, as when Rockefeller crushed profitable competitors; they were not to be given the chance to show what they could do. In its internal rigidity, the bureaucratic pyramid can also crush individual enterprise and intelligence - famously so in the mind-numbing routines of the Ford Motor Works, Equally, however, the bureaucratic pyramid is not a soulless machine; it defines social relationships of a particular sort." Pg 164 Bureaucratic Respect - Respect The Formation of Character in an age of Inequality - Richard Sennett (2003)
Image 3. Bus Crowd at Paddington
"Similarly, in the extensive recent philosophical literature on the nature of autonomy, debates over the content-neutrality of autonomy or the social conditions necessary for its exercise ultimately turn on issues of the scope of privacy, the nature of rights, the scope of our obligation to others, claims to welfare and so on – the very issues that are at the heart of discussions of liberalism regarding the legitimate political, social, and legal order." Pg 1 Introduction - Autonomy and the challenges to Liberalism: New Essays - J. Christensen, J, Anderson - Cambridge University Press (2005)
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1. Civil Rights March, Washington D.C. 08/28/1963 (2011) Ink, found images 42.5 X 29.7 cm
