Gayle Chong Kwan, Vista, Brockwell Walled Garden, London, 2004
A brass plaque with an etched landscape outline, which was created out of a graph made of responses to questions I asked people who lived in various gated communities in London. I questioned the inhabitants as to their fears regarding the ‘crime’ they feel exists outside the secure wall of their gated developments. Their responses were collated into an outline landscape with the names of the fears expressed, and the higher peaks reflecting the greatest fears expressed. This plaque of ‘perceived fear of crime’ was installed facing the wall of the Brockwell Park Walled Garden, outwards towards what is imagined to lie beyond the security of the enclosed garden, and to Brixton, an area in London often associated with perceived or exaggerated high crime rates.
