An important element to artistic practice and the human experience is reflection. This means thoughtfulness but also representation and recognition. It was a lack of representation and recognition that was the catalyst for black artists of the 1980s to reflect on their position in their society as individuals and collectively in their racialisation as black. In writing about the conditions of identity in Britain, Stuart Hall repeatedly wrote about the fluidity of identity and how it is always being constituted. I use the sliding puzzle to continue this proposition that our personal and collective identities are constructed through an ongoing process of ordering and disordering.
