
About this work / story layer
The story inside Common Ground
I placed the two hands at the center because equality begins with contact, not with a slogan. One hand is pale, the other dark, and they rise together above a small globe. A bright rainbow cloth wraps around them, serving not just as a shared promise, but as a true celebration of all identities, perspectives, and paths of human connection. The black and white forms on either side suggest the old habit of dividing people into fixed sides. I wanted the colors to interrupt that habit and show that brotherhood is not sameness, but the courage to hold difference without turning it into distance. Emmanuel Levinas wrote about how the other person calls us into responsibility, and that very idea guided me here. The world below the hands is small, reminding me that our shared ground is fragile.

