Matt Gunther: Probable Cause
Matt Gunther and Matthew Sharpe
This is a story of an ongoing journey, visiting intimately an underground world where the lines between the police and the people they are en forcing are blurred into one. During a ten year investigation embedded into the police force of Newark , N ew J ersey, Artist Matt Gunther gained access to a system where the means of enforcement are as archaic as the very nature that simply enforcing will solve the problems. If you believe in karma, or are willing t o entertain it as a metaphor, you might think of the collective of humanity — and the human microcosm of police officers, suspects, and victims so vividly shown in Probable Cause — in the way that the Buddhist teacher Sharon Salzberg describes it: “In this inc onceivably immense reality, we have all wandered forever... Through this timelessness we have all done everything, every one of us: we have loved, hated, feared, killed, raped, stolen, given, served, loved.... We are all one another’s parents, children, frie nds, lovers, and enemies, over and over again.”
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