Yukinori Yanagi

Why did he chose to work with an insect? Does he just have a "thing" for ants? What is he trying to express in his flag piece?
I think it is very interesting and visually stimulating in the process and the end result to use the ant like he did. It must have taken forever and really hurt his back to have to do all that, and with a material as simple as a red crayon. It was really cool, but who thinks of stuff like that to do?!?! Wow, maybe that web article was right and I do lack all senses of creativity. Interesting to think to use animals and sort of weigh them equal with humans...I think that they should be. Upon reading the title for the flag piece, I just thought that this guy had an obsession with ants but when I started reading his explanation, I understand why he thinks of it that way. Dealing with the social and cross-cultural issues that he does, he sees the issues as being like ants who he says doesnt know national boundaries..true. We all suffer the same I suppose. The dragging of colors was also a interesting idea.