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Follow the Leader

Stock: 1
Date: 2025
Dimensions: 60 x 60 cm
Price: POA

Description

A silent procession of figures stands in line, heads bowed, faces erased and replaced by the Union Jack. In Follow the Leader, Mr Phantom confronts the psychology of obedience, the quiet surrender of individuality in favour of inherited identity and unquestioned allegiance. Each figure mirrors the next, not through force, but through habit. The work exposes how nationalism, when followed blindly, can become a mask rather than a belief, something worn, repeated, and passed forward without reflection. The absence of facial features denies personal identity, reducing the figures to symbols of conformity rather than citizens with agency. The piece questions who leads, who follows, and whether leadership still exists at all, or whether society simply moves forward in formation, guided by tradition rather than thought.

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