The piece presents a series of images with sub titles which
provide background information on the murder which was carried out at that specific
location.
The viewer is presented with the image, which is a normal
image, the sub titles provide the context for what you are seeing, the narrative
however is driven by the viewer as they are asked to provide an emotional
response to both the image and the information. You are allowed to feel emotions
and thoughts on both the surviving families of the victims and for the people
who found the bodies. We are at no point given much information on the victim
or if the murder was investigated and the perpetrators convicted, this gives me
a feeling of imbalance which drives the context and the narrative.
During the video the artist states clearly that in this
series he is providing nothing more than the information and that the viewer
provides the narrative, I feel that this is correct.
Personally I struggled a little with these images, as I grew
up in a divided sectarian environment and I have taken a lot of emotional steps
to get away from this environment, so my emotional response to these images was
both sadness and negative as once again I failed to understand
why people do this to each other.
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