Statelessness & Citizenship Review 2020 2(2) Figure 5: Visualising stateless people as cacti. 118 The Creative Court intended to bring out the issue of agency. Agency is defined by Gell as something attributable to those persons (and things …) who/which are seen as initiating casual sequences of a particular type, that is, events caused by acts of mind or will or intention … independently of the state of the physical universe’. 119 Anthony Giddens defined agency as people’s ability to act in a certain way where multiple courses of action are possible. 120 118 ‘How to Recognise a Tree’, Creative Court (Web Page) <https://www.creativecourt.org/index.php/portfolio/work-in-progress/>. 119 Gell (n 23) 16. 120 Robert Layton, ‘Art and Agency: A Reassessment’ (2003) 9(3) Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 447, 451. 296