URBAN INTERVENTIONS - FEAR CONTROLLER

Whilst photographing sculptural interventions littered along Liverpool Street in the Spanish Quarter I found another interested individual doing the same. I told him of my project, of the varied interventions I'd located across Sydney, and their locations. He revealed he was a business analyst and that his interest in these subversive sculptural objects stemmed from an analogy he'd drawn between them and the business reporting and auditing systems he specialised in at work. He saw them both as operating in the background, discreetly providing feedback under the noses of the unsuspecting.

The 'Fear Controller' covered in street grime and tomato ketchup, signals sub-cultural discontent with consumer trends, technological obsession, and monopolistic media practices. An example of the latent becoming manifest.