During a time when our economy's prevailing winds seem to favor mononopolies and monoculture it is important to emphasis the advantages of diversity. This conviction has become part of the background of my work and has led to a series of related artworks and projects over the last five years. Wall Ethics Master Tseng said, The gentleman by his culture collects his friends about him, and through these friends promotes Goodness. Cell membranes do not differ in principle from medieval walled cities, the contract binding the employee to a corporation acts in much the same way as the skin surrounding the body. Barriers give shape and context to organisms and systems, determining whether one is in or out.
Walls establish territory.
Walls maintain identity. They keep the primary agents of diversity- known as species, apart, maintaining their separate genetic identity. Biological barriers ensure nature's diversity. Our policy is to break down the walls between diverse groups and cultures, to negate difference and integrate everyone and everything in the huge cannibal melting pot called monoculture. Walls are never completely open or closed.