Title: 'Repeat After Me' Catalogue no: 4202 Medium/Material: Size (inch):

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	The representations of farmyard animals, fantastic only in their simplicity, are reminiscent of nursery books and the language of childhood. The initial impression is re-examined when on closer inspection the playful images are seen to be cut -out of adult fantasy and romantic fictional novels. The juxtaposition of these simplified and distorted images from childhood and adulthood are set in the incongruity of the phone box. Here human communication is limited, and thus distorted and whose private intimacy can only itself be an illusion. The childhood fantasy innocently ignores the reality of farm practices often cruel, abusive and degrading to animals. The adult fantasy of romantic fiction, which views sexual relationships with moral simplistic righteousness ignores the multi dimensional aspects of human relationships. Pornography degrades and dehumanises sex. It ignores and abuses, even if only in thought. It denies individual identity and encourages the voyeur to see other human beings as no more than sexual parts. These images are fragmented and juxtaposed. They all carry with them oppression, which is emphasised by the tortured sounds of nursery tunes, triggered off when a caller steps into the phone box. Society colludes with these fantasies. It shows innocence or pretends not to see. The pretence is daily acted out, just as the regular regime of cleaning the phone boxes removes all signs and marks of what happens there.