It is enabled by two features: markers of race, most obviously photographs but also subtler indicators, such as names; and discretion on the part of market participants over whom they transact with.
Obviously, photographs of date nights and hand-holding, sitcom-style anecdotes and ostentatious PDAs, such as full-frontal gazing (the Milibands) and sleepy snuggling (the Camerons) can go a long way to reassure a public that has come to expect continual avowals of love as guarantors of sincerity.
Everything on the screen works like a vector graphic – except, obviously, photographs – and you can edit text and add shapes like you would in a standard design program.
Obviously, photographs and video footage from the event went viral, with many calling both the piece and the Minister's part in it racist, insensitive and offensive.
Microbloggers pointed out that while officials had merely said sorry for the obviously fake photograph, an official government crackdown threatens jail for lowlier souls spreading "internet rumours".
These puzzling questions become even more confounding when you consider the exhibition's obviously trick photographs, like those of giant ears of corn on flatbed railroad cars or of celebrities whose heads have been grafted onto anonymous bodies.
Obviously the photographs have been taken at different times and then joined together to what we see in the snapshot.
The images look naturalistic but are not unlike Brathwaite's more obviously manicured photographs of "natural" women.
It would be easier to work from photographs, obviously, but there's an energy, an urgency working from life that doesn't come from a photograph.
Obviously, looking at photographs means you don't focus on the performance in the same way.
