Original size 9 inches x 12 inches
“Against Nature” (2013) is a political commentary on the arbitrary, abstract and artificial nature of international borders and how political, military and economical interests of the remote powerful create a system that is both oppressive towards the ordinary living and breathing people and defiant of the laws of nature. Nationality laws, immigration laws, and any other means to control borders are product of modern human system, and wild plants and animals simply do not know their existence. Likewise, the idea of dividing the planet earth into various countries and exclude the “foreign” is against nature.
To allow the message to have a universal appeal, it depicts a fictional border between two fictitious countries, which can be any countries you can think of. The sleeve of a naval officer and that of an army officer represent the inherent systemic violence that borders generally represent, and how they are often drawn in a remote war room or national capital, or on an international negotiating table.
This work is dedicated to the immigration reform and immigrants’ rights movement, countless DREAMers, and multitude of undocumented immigrants.
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