Coats of Arms – reliefs
Format:
Textile, plastic, oil-stick, artificial hair, plywood
Year:
2000 - 2004
Themes:
Coats of Arms
Royalty
Series of three commissioned by The Drawing Room, London, 2004
“…But emblems disclose something else equally sickening about state power. In his view that war is natural to humans ‘when there is no visible Power to keep them in awe,’ the 17th century philosopher Thomas Hobbes endorsed the mystificatory role emblems play in commanding obedience on the part of ‘the people’ precisely because most of us neither understand their meaning nor pay them much attention.” – Kobena Mercer, 2011
