Utopia Island

2020

CTRLZAK

"Based on Thomas More’s original Republic of Utopia, this piece utilizes the woodcuts that appeared in the first edition to talk about the concept of Utopia itself. “Utopia” is a derived from the Greek prefix “ou”, meaning “not”, and topos “place”; hence the name literally means “nowhere” while at the same time it refers to a place that could be anywhere. A notion that exists for each and every one of us and takes diverse forms depending on how we perceive it. In the end it is how we choose to connect the dots that composes the imaginary map of our own Utopia" - Ctrlzak