The second body of work I am displaying for my degree show is a wall of mounted CCTV cameras. The idea developed from my previous idea of mounting conversations or speech, my piece ‘Glow’ is an example of this…
We are living in an age of ever increasing surveillance; CCTV cameras are a very common vision on the streets, to quote government statistics ‘each person in the country is caught on camera an average of 300 times daily’, Daily Mail, 2009, Revealed: Big Brother Britain has more CCTV cameras than China, [online], accessed 2013, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1205607/Shock-figures-reveal-Britain-CCTV-camera-14-people–China.html#ixzz2UD3rseLP.
So what I wanted to do was to create a body of work that addressed this issue, I wanted to give the power back to the people, taking away the threat of being caught on camera. I chose to do this by creating a series which I loosely titled ‘Urban Hunting’. The series of work is based around the idea of big game hunting, as we are captured by the cameras, what would happen if the hunters became the hunted? Ripping them from their natural environment and displaying them as trophies on a wall for all to marvel at, they suddenly become less of an object of hate and more an object of desire. You want to display these as you have worked hard capturing them.
