Veteran local artist Victor Gordon concedes that finding a suburban living room for his latest sculpture might be quite the challenge.
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But he didn't create it with a buyer in mind.
Titled The stakes couldn't be higher, the mixed media sculpture is a commentary on what has become of the United States of America over the past four years under president Donald Trump.
Utilising a car tyre, buffalo horns, a red Make America Great Again (MAGA) baseball cap, sunglasses with attached Confederate Flag pins, a wind-up metal key, a wooden stool by Peter Lowe and a length of rope, the sculpture evokes images of not only an element of Mr Trump's core base of voters in 2020, but mob justice carried out via Ku Klux Klan lynchings in the US and township "necklacing" in Mr Gordon's native South Africa.
"In a sense one always looks for individual symbols that somehow connect everything together," said Mr Gordon.
"As a joke my brother-in-law gave me that damn MAGA hat for Christmas; he arranged for an American to buy one for me.
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"I was absolutely horrified.
"Having that hat stare at me for a couple of months finally coalesced into making a piece with the hat as the central force."
The use of a car tyre points not only to the past practice of necklacing in South Africa - "an awful way of executing people by a kangaroo court" - but the stereotypical image of the American redneck or good ol' boy as a car or truck aficionado.
"Absolutely," said Mr Gordon, "and putting the horns there gives it a cowboy-esque sort of image. It has all those connotations."
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Mr Gordon said "the current threat to the American constitution, and the degeneration of the rule of law in the USA over the last four years, demanded a socially aware artist's response".
"I felt compelled to respond aesthetically to this election in a politically loaded sculpture that directly addresses current fascism in the USA."
He said it was "more akin" to the anti-Apartheid work he produced in South Africa in the 1980s and 1990s.
"It specifically recalls the not-too-distant history of the white mob lynching of black Americans in the South, but in a stark racial role reversal."
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