All at Sea

This drawing represents our vision for a border control point between Israel and Jordan in the middle of the Dead Sea. As a reaction from our travelling experience, this project aims to reflect on the ‘apparatus’ of border crossings. It portrays our impression of the long and interruptive, almost dehumanizing process of border crossings, where military forces and antagonism between nations are omnipresent, yet also trivialized by the tediousness of the procedure. The scheme exaggerates counter-productivity, and amplifies the induced feeling of disorientation or absurdity. The user is therefore forced into a long sequential process by a continuous flow of automated trains, following two trajectories that never physically connect but entangle into moments of tension. The use of color conveys a more ironic tone, where the whimsical representation intentionally contrasts with the darkness of the subject matter.