Agree/Disagree/Not Sure
In AGREE/DISAGREE/NOT SURE [1] statements similar to those used in Psychometric tests are placed in conjunction with landscape pictures and images of installations found throughout Britain and occasionally abroad.
Psychometric tests are given to individuals to assess their suitability for certain types of work. The tests are designed to expose personality traits which may have been overlooked during interviews.
There are many such tests and in general respondents are asked to “agree” or “disagree” by ticking boxes beside various statements. Typically, a test may contain around four of five hundred such statements. The results are then evaluated and the conclusions are fed back to the respondents or more usually to their potential employers.
In this work the texts do not stand as titles, but refer to how the meanings of words are conditioned by the context in which they appear. The context in this case being supplied by the images against which they are placed. In the framed works the texts are screen printed onto the back of the glass of the frames indicating they are an integral part of the work rather than a title or caption.
In addition to the framed works there are two books. More details of the two books can be found on the TEXT pages of this site:
https://www.allanforresterparker.co.uk/text/agree-disagree_book_1/
Agree/Disagree/Not Sure [2] continues the juxtaposition of images and texts in book one. The texts are similar to those used in psychometric tests as before, but in this book they also reflect the perceived convergence of psychology tests with the reductive presentations of ideas often found on platforms such as Instagram and X and inside fortune cookies and greeting cards.
More details of Agree/Disagree/Not Sure [2] can be found here:
https://www.allanforresterparker.co.uk/text/agree-disagree-book_2/
The images have been made by the artist over a period time in a variety of formats including on film: 5X4, Hasselblad medium format, Hasselblad XPan, various 35mm cameras and digitally: on an iphone, Cannon 5D, Leica DLux etc.