The ballot box, a row of 8 life-sized sculptures, each of them constructed with armatures of human figures wrapped with wire-mesh upon which blobs of clay have been plastered all over with. The figures are all of different sizes, shapes and heights and are wielded to a long, narrow rectangular metal frame so that they are in a sort of queue-like formation.
What with the current state of our political unrest, the ballot box has become a symbol of oppression, intimidation, violence and deception rather than the freedom the citizen has to exercise his or her franchise. One can no longer visit the polling centers during elections these days without witnessing some of the strangest atrocities and raves of violence and political thuggery or hooliganism that occurs in the new Nigerian definition of election.
What with the current state of our political unrest, the ballot box has become a symbol of oppression, intimidation, violence and deception rather than the freedom the citizen has to exercise his or her franchise. One can no longer visit the polling centers during elections these days without witnessing some of the strangest atrocities and raves of violence and political thuggery or hooliganism that occurs in the new Nigerian definition of election.
