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Work ⟩1960s ⟩Ku Klux Klan 1964

About the Work

This sculpture was made out of an old squashed oil drum which I found on the banks of a canal in Wolverhampton when I was an art student in this town. The top section was modelled and then cast in fibreglass. My interest in making titles for a work as much as in making the work itself dates from this sculpture. I was interested in desegregation in the American South at the time as well as the 1964 General Election during which unofficial election posters were plastered throughout Wolverhampton saying 'If you want a nigger for a neighbour, vote Liberal or Labour'. The arm and the black hole are supposed to signify an exclamation mark turning into a question mark.