PEACE FLAG
This flag is actually two flags in one. The back and front are visible at the same time.
Whichever direction the wind blows from, one is always able to see both sides. This is an analogy. In some conflicts, I can see both sides and I believe that resolution can only be found if both sides are acknowledged and heard.
The Peace Flag flies on top of The Grand, a very beautiful, historic building in Folkestone. Just underneath the flagpole is a light installation by Yoko Ono, blinking the words Earth Peace in Morse code out onto the English Channel.
On the Peace flag the actual words appear to be handwritten, this signifies the human hand, the human doing. The font is so big that it looks like it wants to jump out of the flags, there is an urgency to it. Peace we say! Please, make peace!
White flags used to indicate surrender on the battlefield, maybe they still do. To me surrender also describes an internal process of letting go, a surrender to the heart to find forgiveness and inner peace. Because without inner peace there will never be peace in the outside world.
This flag installation was commissioned and will stay at The Grand.
Peace Flag 2023
Flag fabric, rope, toggle, brass eyelets.
Commissions of similar works are possible. Please get in touch if you are interested in commissioning a flag.
