I have long thought that the Mediterranean should once again become a space rather than a wall. It once was a central space of interaction and making. Now it is a surveillance space. Most religions of the world are on the Mediterranean, vast numbers of different cultures, economies, societies—a world in a dense space. There is an infinite sadness rising from this sea ocean within which the last ten years alone saw over 10,000 women, men and children drown as they hoped for a better life. This need to go beyond the Mediterranean as wall and surveillance space and recover its connective tissue, then, guided me in selecting these five.
Postcard #7. [top image] Unusually, the visuals relate to the most modest navigators of the Mediterranean –migrants in search of a livelihood. And the complexity is in the water, invisible, beneath the surface. The opposite of the advertising mode—all surface and little depth.
There is an infinite sadness rising from this sea ocean within which the last ten years alone saw over 10,000 women, men and children drown as they hoped for a better life.
Postcard #45. [below] Can we hack it all?...and then make the bridge.
