El Salvador and Guatemala (2010)
Flash animation for Myriam Thyes' Flag Metamorphoses Project

Participant in The Flag Metamorphoses Project piece titled: El Salvador - Guatemala

Link to the Flash video:
http://www.flag-metamorphoses.net/screen-elsalvador-guatemala.swf

El Salvador - Guatemala

El Salvador and Guatemala exist just above three, pent-up, agitated and powerful tectonic plates that make this region one of the most seismically active places in the world. Perhaps this geological turmoil filters upwards, onto the civilizations that inhabit the surface layers, in more than just the obvious ways. The seemingly regular cycles of violence and power-struggles upon the land occur with the scale and ferocity of earthquakes, and they seem as ancient as human inhabitants on the land. The militarized border between El Salvador and Guatemala is not so permeable to those in El Salvador seeking better wages and escape from the violence of civil war.

"A participatory art project - a continuously growing series of animations. Animated by as many artists from across the globe as possible, the flags of all nations in the world are morphed into each other through Flash animation. Between each two flags, scenes appear that show a relation between the two countries. Each artist who creates a flag animation expresses such a relation in his/her own way."
                          -Myriam Thyes <http://www.flag-metamorphoses.net>