2023, crushed safety glass collected from the streets of Gothenburg and silicone.
The box that works as a stand and storage vessel is made out of pine plywood.

This is the only object in the collection that I have to rely on witness testimonials, not photographic evidence from a reliable source. It was the one that made me think about how I am able to say that only if I witnessed it is it real. So, this one made me think about the relevance of fantasy. We have to be able to imagine to see injustice. If not, we close the doors to the suffering of those that we cannot see due to censorship or just not having access to reliable journalists with cameras.  

So let us imagine Chongqing on a rainy day in January, a few weeks before the Chinese New Year 2023. A Covid test kit plant owned by Zybio is closed down, and people are laid off without their promised New Year bonuses. There is a fair amount of people being upset about the loss of income and that contracts were not being honored. I can’t find a reliable source for the exact number of people participating in the protest. It seems substantial when the response is that a riot-grade police force is coming to take control of them. The crowd responded to the police force by throwing everything that they could get their hands on at them. One of the specific objects described in the article is traffic cones. 

I imagine how they fly
through the air
like big, great
orange arrows.

Besides witness testimonials there is video material of the protests. Their geolocation is used to verify the time and location of the protests by Reuters. 

In February 2024, the same video material was used as fake news of protests in Chongqing. Those orange arrows are flying on in the tumble dryer of anger. 

Peter Rosvik 2023