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Myra Gilbert
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Gampi tissue paper and ink

Now that the world’s boundaries are highlighted daily with Covid19 statistics, our awareness of physical boundaries is heightened. Our fortunes depend heavily on the prevailing politics of our location and current living condition. The media show us how different our health might be in an insecure world such as that of an immigrant trying to reach survival in a safer place. On our island there is a natural elemental boundary where water meets land and it has been formally marked out as a resource that requires permission to be on it; currently prohibited to new arrivals.

Elsewhere opportunists take life savings from migrants with promises to deliver them to safe havens. An annual trek to Cornwall for a summer holiday provided a useful perspective with which to compare how an equivalent child immigrant might feel arriving on such a beach. Gampi tissue dress with collage of hand drawn imagery in ink. The imagery attempts to illustrate the dissonance of families on both sides of a shoreline boundary.

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