Borders

Borders depicts enlarged barbed wire with spikes almost the size of human fingers. Barbed wire is an image recognized by human kind all over the world, in different cultures and geographical places. Wherever there are humans, there is always barbed wire. It represents a physical image of borders, metaphorically and realistically.

Society could not exist without boundaries. As individuals, we need to recognize the boundaries between ourselves and our fellow beings. What I want does not have to be what the other wants. What I like does not have to be what the other likes. What I prefer does not have to be what the other prefers. Tolerance of differences allows coexistence. However, that tolerance may be quite fragile and easily shattered.

Intolerance turns boundaries into destructive practices on individual and societal levels. Rather than respecting differences, people may use them to devalue the other and subsequently keep them away from them, curb their rights, keep them out, kill them or even mass exterminate them.

Borders addresses these dualities.