Northern Ireland 1968 - May Day 1975 1975 - 1976

Editor: So, this is Conrad Atkinson's "Northern Ireland 1968 - May Day 1975," and it looks like a timeline of small images paired with colorful squares. The overall effect is strangely…ordered, almost clinical. How do you interpret this work? Curator: It's a fascinating piece, isn't it? To me, it's a poignant scrapbook of the Troubles, those ordinary images juxtaposed with bureaucratic colour coding. Like, here’s life, but it’s being indexed, categorized, controlled. Don’t you think there's a tension between the personal and the political? Editor: That makes perfect sense. I was so focused on the clean lines I missed the emotional undercurrent entirely. Curator: Sometimes art’s like a shy friend; you have to listen closely to hear its stories. It's a reminder that art can be a powerful form of witness.