a stranger in my own country

Borrowed from the title of Hans Fallada's 1944 Prison memoires*, this series comes from my attitudes to division, dislocation, alienation and loss in the age of emerging populism and Brexit. The work aims to bring to the fore the wider political and social resonances - be they hypocrisies, banalities, meaninglessness or inverted meanings - of seemingly platitudinous words or phrases such as “ ‘avin’ a larf”, “let me be clear”, “I will be with you, whatever”, even “arbeit macht frei” (“work liberates”).

* German author b. Greifswald 1893, d. Berlin 1947