This extract is taken from a transcript of an interview between Sonia Boyce and Emma Dexter

SB: The figures that are in sequence on the far left are what became popularly known as golliwog figures of pickaninnies and were taken directly from a children's book - I'm not quite sure which one, but we can come back to that and get the details. They were common currency - that imagery was common currency - not only for me growing up as child, but before then. These images have come from the 1930's - one doesn't see them as readily now but I suppose they shout out a stereotype - the kind of parodying of the black body, the black figure. Again, the eyes are wide with just a dot for pupils. I'm not sure why the mouth became this almost doughnut shape, which was white but very cartoonish - very much a parody of black features. And I think there was equivalence between the supposedly benign quality of these comic children's stories and the films. What I was doing, in this piece, was to appropriate material that was already out there in a way. And its sequen ce as a series of six images suggests the filmic, the frame - framed on many levels really.