Happy Contaminations

In the same wonderful way in which, through a loving encounter, two human beings who have re-cognised each other in their common universal essence merge, overcoming all separations…
so this very special Flag leads us – through the deliberately provocative use of the word contamination – beyond borders and nationalisms.

It is in fact a Contamination of Love, which helps us rediscover the sense of connection between people, countries, cultures, fields of experience, values, traditions… that we have forgotten.

THE ISRAELI–PALESTINIAN CONTAMINATED FLAG

In this Flag, wishing for peace between two peoples still in bitter conflict, Israel and Palestine, the Trustingly Contaminated Flag offers itself as a field of resonance, to communicate the renewed needs of peace, brotherhood and knowledge of the human species of the third millennium…

The Happily Contaminated Flag becomes a declaration of love to humanity, for new ways of sharing and alliance.

The Happily Contaminated Flag becomes a meeting ground with the other, where identity is no longer a castrating stereotype, no longer fixed or paranoid, but – having become light and playful – creates new worlds…

The hope is that the example will be followed by the contamination of many others.

THE ITALIAN–TUNISIAN CONTAMINATED FLAG

H.C.F. – Happily Contaminated Flags

The Italian flag happily contaminates itself with the Tunisian one.

Starting from an apparent contradiction – since the flag represents THE Nation, which seems meant to enclose and protect each of us – this work overcomes it in a magical gesture of union, merging the symbols and colours of both.

The white, red and green of the Italian flag and the white and red of the Tunisian one were built by writing the word peace, in Arabic and in Italian, until the familiar structures took shape – the first more schematic, the second more varied, with its crescent moon bearing a star, both red.

The two flags overlap and, dancing, merge: there is no erasure of the particular features of each person or people, but the vision becomes broader…