Yukinori Yanagi is a renowned artist, perhaps best known for his piece 'Pacific' which consisted of a series of interconnecting perspex boxes with coloured sand to represent the flags of 49 different nations.
He then released thousands of ants, whose movement distributed the sand from one flag to another. Suggestive of patterns of global migration, the ants gradually eroded the borders between different nations, creating new designs.
Yanagi said his work aimed to question the concept of 'nation'.
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