Military boots and a check motif symbolise power and power games played by leaders. A terrified family hiding under a table and peering over a wall at the men in military boots approaching their home. But ironically the artist has shown the men walking on stilts to appear taller than they are with the boots not on their feet but on the stilts. The boots on stilts hanging on the wall inside the home hinting at the way physical & psychological control systems permeate our public and private spaces
