Faggot

This piece challenges the viewer, asking the question, "Who's words do you speak as your own?" The viewer approaches this piece, a dias in a large room. The lighting is aimed at the viewer, blinding, not on the art itself. The viewer stands at the dias, such as one would see standing before a preacher, or politician. Where one would expect to see printed material, a speech, perhaps, lays a bundle of glass sticks. Upon closer inspection, the sticks are in fact stick figures, elongated human forms, bound in leather. A mock tele-prompter carries the text
"Faggot (noun)
A bundle of sticks or branches meant for use as firewood. The word derives through the old French fagot and the Italian diminutive fagotto from the Latin facses ('Bundle, also the origin of the word Fascism') Coming into middle English no later than 1279, it has also been used on occasion to refer more specifically to wood for funeral pyres or a burning at the stake.
During the Inquisition, heretics, witches, elderly women and homosexuals were burned at the stake, and the word came to describe those destroyed by the burning faggots at their feet. Recanting heretics had to wear an embroidered faggot on their sleeve.
Formed at 1500 degrees fahrenheit, this faggot has survived the fire. Not only has it survived the fire, this bundle has gained it's strength and colour through the heat it has endured."