Tale I: Check Point

This is an area where six countries meet, and the six border walls released from the center of the area delineate the territories of these countries at the intersection. In order to facilitate the administration of various countries, although people can travel freely between countries, when people go to one of the countries, they must pass through each of the two countries in turn. When passing through the checkpoint, people passing through will hand in their documents belonging to the previous country and then accept the new documents from this country. During the repeated shuttle between countries, the documents that symbolize their identity are constantly changing.

This scene depicts a person walking through checkpoints and changing identities incessantly. This process is a condensed expression of the constantly changing self-identity during the journey of one’s life. In our opinion, this situation is more clearly manifested in the nomad group: When they (people from various cultural backgrounds) work on a boat (at sea), they no longer have the sustenance of their original identity. They were also given a new identity, a new nation that crossed the original cultural barriers.