Embracing our Differences – Alina Potemska

52', 2016

This work of art is one of 45 pieces selected for inclusion in the Embracing Our Differences exhibit on display during April and May 2016 in Sarasota's Island Park, USA. The exhibit received 8,350 submissions representing 104 countries and 42 states including such distant lands as India, Vietnam, and the Philippines.

"We are all different. This is a simple fact and starting point. And this is our value. Just imagine, how boring it would be to have all the same "you" around? 

However, according to lists of psychological experiments, people are naturally distrustful of one another. Why do people hate other people just because of the clothes they wear? Dialect they speak? Work they do? Why can't they just be friends? Fear not to make new friends. Embrace our differences. Just.. Make new friends!?