Political World Map

World map, childrens' toys
2007

While watching my nephews play recently, I started to notice connections between the scenarios they were acting out with their toys and many of the social and political events unfolding around the globe.

This caused me to think about how the creation and production of children's toys is affected by the existing political environment, and how these toys in turn manipulate the values and ideals of our next generation of leaders.

The Political World Map uses these innocent toys as metaphors for the very real events this world is lead into by our political leaders. Some of these events are just taking shape, while some are relics of the past that continue to affect us today.