Global
Passport
Global
passport is a project born in June 2014.
The idea
was in my mind for long time. Coming from Italy means you have been seen people
coming to your country with the hope of having a new and better life and
knowing that what they actually find is difficulties.
Now I live
in South Africa and I can feel on my own skin what living in another country
means, especially when you must deal with permits.
The concept
of emigration/immigration itself is something I do not agree with. It comes
from the fact that countries are a closed space and you must ask “permesso”
“please can I come in?” and pay for that and pay again if you decide to stay.
Out society
made flying from one place to the other something cheap and easy under the
motto of “being free to move”. And I feel this is one of the thousands of lies
about freedom and about being in one global world. The flights are cheap to
improve tourism and this is again another thing that does not concern the
concept of “knowing another country better” but again is about money.
This are
some of the reasons that brought me to think about a global passport as a
passport that allows you to go everywhere you want without having to ask for a
visa. The book is divided into 18 pages- illustrations that symbolize countries
or groups of countries. The illustrations do not include symbols of religions
but especially politics. I consider to include just animals, people and object
that I though they would illustrate the countries.
This is one
of my dreams for our future world and I made it true using my art and trying
with that to make other people thinking about it.
moleskine japan book, ink