The Mouth of Lords - 2023

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The 750 mouths of the House of Lords, the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Baroness D’Souza (former speaker) describes the number of members as:

“a public scandal”
and that some people did not treat it as:
“a serious job.”
“Basically what they are doing is treating it as an honour - maybe it is something that gets them a table at a restaurant.”

92 of the peers (hereditary peers, all male) are there simply because they inherited a title from their father.

A grid of 16x49 rectangular mouths. Most mouths are smiling, with some showing teeth. Most mouths are white, some mouths have lipstick, some with facial hair.
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