Each of the pieces in the ‘When the Master Calls’ series is made from a bellboard dating from the early 20th century, that would have been used in a large English home. The bellboard was positioned at the centre of the servants’ quarters, so that a butler or maid could respond when a bell requesting service was rung. These works suggest a felt subservience to a media projection of the Middle East, as well as an investigative fatigue, resulting in an emotional blank. These pieces also allude to the intellectual particularism with which mass-media networks describe the Middle East: grouping disparate locations, figures and groups together into one continuous framework, so allowing little more than a binary response to events within the region.