Dissent, watercolour and ink, 2011
It's not that I have any Utopian idea of how society might be perfectly organised - every society needs structure and in the shadows of every structure lurk the sacrifices made to achieve coherence: the resources exploited, what has been excluded or sublimated, the alternatives of how it might have been, the memory of what was there before and fears about what it might become! A shared belief in structural integrity is what enables us to conduct our social transactions in a more or less workable fashion. In not so good times, however, voices of dissent gather enough conviction to come out fighting from the shadows!
