Geraldo Lewa

Australia

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This illustration is largely symbolistic and principally based of quotes taken from the brief. The thick, centred square box depicts the heavily enclosed “borders” of immigration – “Western World since then have voted to close borders and build walls to keep foreigners out”; these borders may appear in a form that are physical (geographically far), governmental (laws or regulations that hamper immigrants from entering the country), or social (having to adapt to unaccustomed culture, tradition, norms, or language). The freedom of movement is visualised by the thin, zig-zag line across the box. Parts of the line going outside the enclosed box illustrate that the movement of immigrants must not be bounded by any forms of “borders”. The line is asymmetrical, which further accentuate the freedom of the motion – “now it’s time to raise awareness of this human right: the freedom to move to a new country in search for a safer place to live”. The intersection points between the zig-zag line to the sides of the box were also illustrated differently. Oftentimes, immigrants risk their life when they attempt to escape their war-filled country. The immigrants’ profound desire to flee their country was shown on the left point of intersection, where the line toughly penetrates through the thick wall. On the contrary, the line crosses the border (on the right point of intersection) through a clear, defined passageway. Developed countries need to welcome immigrants, but sadly this is not the case. Instead of being welcomed, immigrants are frequently imposed with “violent rhetoric of hatred and fear” in the country they longingly hope to reside in. Lines are mostly coloured in black; only the tip of the arrow is coloured in orange. This is a visualisation of the quote on the brief which wrote: “if we put close borders and build walls to keep ‘them’ out, we will only descend to darkness”. The colour black symbolises the “darkness” or the lack of enrichment immigrant-dismissing countries will experience if they reject immigrants moving into their country. The colour orange on the tip of the arrow line symbolises the freedom from terror, pain, discrimination, and other cruelties of the world that immigrants hope to achieve when they reside in a new country.
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Freedom of Movement


In last year's brief we talked about "a world where boundaries are becoming less and less meaningful. Now more than ever, we are one people. No matter where we live, we are all equally powerless in the face of war or environmental disaster."

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Immigrants and Borders

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