National Borders: Just an illusion? What changes when you cross a national border? The language, the social codes, the culture? The landscape? National borders are the results of thousands of years with war, power shifts and our need to define, give names and concur a geographical point. Norway borders in Finnmark to Sweden, Finland and Russia – yet the landscape shows no sign of change when you cross the border. It remains, as it was, unaffected of its new name. Through my third post I am trying to illustrate this very fact. The poles will look like they are randomly placed in the landscape – until the viewer reaches the exact point from where you will see the strait line. Driving the car, this point will only be seen for a second, before the border again will dissolve. It is a comment about how space can be conquered, segregated and defined only for a brief moment in time, in the case of national boundaries, who knows?
reorientations
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