Simon Andrew Piasecki is from Birmingham but lives in Nantwich in Cheshire. He is on a lot of online art networks. He has been a professional performance artist for 15 years, he saw the project opportunity to revive a piece of work he previously performed. He has 4 children and is finishing a Phd in live arts practice; as a professional artist he feels fraudulent going on the plinth. He originally trained as a painter and later moved into performance; a performance led him to find his grandfather's family - since then his work has focussed on belonging and identity. He is performing a work originally done in collaboration with Glynn Davies-Marshall; he will be wearing a suit of nails, looking like a bowler-hat wearing bureaucrat. the work refers to the lack of compassion seen in border control policy and tabloid papers. He has paper chain people that he might throw off the plinth. He hopes to leave people with a striking and mysterious image. He is doing the project for himself, his family and the memory of family, and anyone with the sense of something lost. Over time he has become more political, he considers compassion very important, social belonging and family are important to him. The idea of nationhood bothers him. He has been a Buddhist for ten years.