Who Will Guard The Guards Themselves?, Los Angeles, 2016

In this piece, the quotation Faith has chosen to use, is the embodiment of the philosophical question of how power can be held to account.

It refers to the impossibility of enforcing moral behaviour when the enforcers are corruptible, as seen in timeless cases of tyrannical governments, uncontrollably oppressive dictatorships, and police or judicial corruption and overreach.

How can we trust authoritative guardians of power when only they are left to guard themselves against themselves? It’s an age-old challenge; the phrase, as it is normally quoted in Latin, comes from the Satires of Juvenal, the 1st/2nd century Roman satirist.