Borders

This work collates boundaries of human body and borders of a state. The territory then becomes a part of personal space. The ambition to expand to such territory leads to wars, looting and rape. These are borders of Ukraine and it is not my country. In 2022 I presented this work as a fabric map with hand embroidered borders of Ukraine and grid lines (scale: 1 cm = 12 km). In 2023 the work was altered. The blanket under the map was reshaped to remind old Ukrainian fortress Khotyn known by the Uprising for independence in 1919. Crosses represent aggregated data of missile strikes which heat points were recognised by a satellite. The data (Wagner & Hilton, 2022) was collected for the two first months of the war only.