Made as a response to the "Go-Ganesha-Go" art project by Rose Marie Gnausch in May 2009 at a border crossing in Nicosia, Cyprus.
The short animation video: "And these realities of things, though in the utmost diversity, are yet intimately connected one with the other"
by Sonja van Kerkhoff + Sen McGlinn is loaded with messages.
But as a viewer, you have to work out your own message.
The title, a quotation from the Bahai writings, could refer to the changing elements in the animation or it could refer to a narrative that seems to spin off in several directions at once.
 Still from the animation
In the end, elephants surface, fly and seem more human than the people in the animation, in the sense that they are more free from the constraints of the world around them.
This freedom is as much a message about free will as about peace, because peace is chosen and created by society. The song, Son Maloso, by Colombian David Dely + the band, Tumba y Quema, currently based in Budapest, Hungary, shares a similiar sentiment. For more go to Sonja's website.
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