Works involving Pangaea

In 2012, digital artist Massimo Pietrobon created “PANGEA POLITICA“, which takes a look at the world as it once was before all the tectonic plates shifted, as the supercontinent Pangaea, but with the country borders of modern age. With this map, Pietrobon also posited whether or not the countries of the world would come together if they all had to share a single piece of land once again.

Intended to be a durational work, Dignity has no nationality is a letter-writing campaign created to collect signatures to be presented to Pope Francis, the first Latin American bishop of Rome, in support of his message against indifference towards immigrants. Its slogan ‘Dignity has no nationality’ emerged from the Migrant Manifesto developed by Tania Bruguera’s Immigrant Movement International for the United Nations Student Conference on Human Rights in 2011, which stipulates that it is through the acknowledgment of the inalienable rights of people that we can have a true barometer of civilization. The campaign takes as its visual identity the Pangaea supercontinent that existed in prehistoric times, approximately 300 million years ago, before it broke apart to form the seven continents, and long before borders between nation states were established.
By calling Vatican City a ‘conceptual nation’, Dignity
has no nationality requests that the Pope extend
Vatican citizenship, as a concept and as a legal right,
to undocumented immigrants, and with this action
bring the continents back together.

This is one of the three pieces I created as a response to the racism I faced in my hometown as well as abroad. Using watercolour monotype printing techniques I have created a reinterpretation of Pangaea with its borders blurred but retaining each colour representing a different country in the world today. Here I am showing, coexistence, diversity, unity are a pre-historic feature of humanity. 
One of the critiques I received was that why does this work signify a world without borders when one can clearly see the borders between the countries. My response to that was borderlessness does not exist in the landmass but in the minds of people. The colours signifying each country was used conserve its rich cultural history as well as to celebrate the differences between the people.