A World of Art

For this blog, I choose the image entitled The World Flag Ant Farm by Yukinori Yanagi. Out of all the images in chapter 1, this one jumped out at me. All the flags of the world sit together in one room, all the same size, all there for the same purpose. The flags are even all connected together with string or rope of some kind. In my eyes, this is an analogy of how the world should be. No country should be bigger than another and since we are all tied together, we must all help each other out or else we'll all fall apart. Each flag represents one country, but tied together, they represent a beautiful piece of art that shows unity. I feel that the artist is trying to convey the exact feeling that I felt when I looked at it. That the globe needs to work together and be one, with no one country being bigger than the others. The image is an ideal world. A perfect world. This is an idea that has been around since the beginning of time, but it will never be an ideal world because the real world is not as ideal as a piece of artwork that someone can imagine in their head and create on a wall.