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Composed of a photo exhibit, a walkthrough timeline, and an art-piece called "the Peacemaker's Path, "When the World declared Peace" is meant to be both a celebration of the role the Manila Declaration has played over the last four decades of global peace-making as well as an invitation to reflect what it means to commit to the peace process today.
"The Peacemaker's Path"
"The Peacemaker's Path"
Stretching roughly five feet by forty feet, the Peacemaker's Path illustrates the Manila Declaration through a winding mosaic of glyphs and symbols. Inspired by as vast an array of historic and modern styles, "the Peacemaker's Path" is meant not merely to depict peace as a lack conflict but as a vast, lively, and sprawling conversation: a clash of crowds that has made a thousand individual decisions to evolve into a co-mingling. The Peacemaker's path is meant to represent some of mankind's most ancient hopes and those hopes given voice and form in the Charter of the United Nations. A presentation of the Philippines.
Peace, Like a River
Peace, Like a River
The shape of the "Peacemaker's Path" follows the contours of Manila's Pasig River and is peppered by iconic Manila landmarks, key people and places in the Declaration's history, and symbolic representations of individual articles in the Manila Declaration. The eight bridges that span the artwork represent eight non-aligned countries whose initiative elaborated on the Manila Declaration: Egypt, Indonesia, Mexico,
Nigeria, the Philippines, Romania, Sierra Leone , and Tunisia. Its style takes major nods to a variety of international artforms: Lascaux cave paintings, Chinese Calligraphy, Aztec codices, Japanese Sansui-ga, American street art, Aboriginal Dreamtime paintings, and Filipino anitist statuary to name some.
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