Rainbow Nation in a Pocket

‘…for the displaced or the dispossessed, the migrant or the refugee, no distance is more awesome than the few feet across borders or frontier’. (Postcolonial Theorist, Homi K. Bhabha, in his article Double Vision; Artforum, January 1992, p88):

So I've thought extremely long and hard about the inspiration behind this challenge (see my Make It So Page: Bridging Over the Great Divide) and how, at the very crux of it, you never really know the true thoughts and feelings of those breathing the same air as you, at least until they find themselves in a situation where their backs are up against a wall and, in the words of my mother, 'their petticoats start showing' (or in this case, bloomers too)!

Whether the frontier is an ocean, a continent... Hadrian's Wall... in this day and age and by virtue of the fact that the concept of the Global Village has been accepted and embraced (for the most part), it's sad that a knee-jerk response can see the emergence of archaic and naive ways of Self and Other thinking.  Apparently news of the hanging, drawing, quartering and scattering of the remains of colonialism (psychological or otherwise) to all four corners of this little isle has not yet reached each and every subject.  Eish! and Ja, no, well fine!  Oh how my Scottish, English and Welsh ancestors would be rolling in their graves...

Imagine if peace and love reigned supreme and we could all live in harmony.  How lovely... in the meantime, I thought I might just create a pocket Rainbow Nation.  There was something quite therapeutic about carving my own Utopia out of clay and having the freedom to decorate it any which way I wanted.  And guess what!  No petticoats or bloomers showing!!  (Note to self:... must do something about those mullets...)