He caught their attention with his subtly subversive costume jewelry designs, which have included necklaces and rings made of spikes, jagged silver, padlocks and piercing rings.
Conspicuously few works address the current reality of airport security and surveillance; those that do, like Kendell Geers's "Security Blanket," made of gleaming industrial-strength padlocks, are rather oblique.
Made of elements like chains, padlocks, spikes, horseshoes and hammer heads, these works from the 90's are formally implosive, poetic meditations on a long history of racial violence (Johnson).
Behind that, inside the gallery, you come upon a third facade of the same dimensions, made of unpainted plywood sheets with a padlock securing its doors.
It stood in front of a forlorn factory (pictured), made of plywood, fibreglass and plaster, and girdled by a huge padlock and chain.
Reparations could give the families in Kavumu back their security: they could sleep easier at night if they had walls made of bricks, not mud, and if they could buy padlocks to put on their doors.
Padlock shims can be easily made out of aluminum soda or beer cans.
Made up of elements like chains, padlocks, spikes, horseshoes and hammer heads, these works from the 90's are formally implosive, poetic meditations on a long history of racial violence (Johnson).
He fished a ring of keys from his pocket and made quick work of a rusty padlock.
"People like to express their love or make declarations of love, and locking a padlock and throwing away the key seems to be a straightforward symbol of fidelity and commitment.
