The alphabetical order the countries are presented in these lists always made me laugh: Andorra after Albania? Canada between Cameroon and Cape Verde? Germany between Georgia and Ghana... Usually we are so used to see some things that don't realize how absurd they are...To have them in alphabetical order, of course, make sense, is easy to use...easy to find one in particular...but, what is the relation that this order creates between the countries?

We also know what happens with alphabetical ordered lists... they are very democratic, all the objects contented in the list, in the bag, are somehow equalized, there is no way to emphasize how much more important, or relevant in international politics is China than Fiji or how Russia is humongous compared to Luxembourg for instance.

This is similar to the beginning of some films in which the name of the actors appear in alphabetical order... I always think that the director does not want to hurt any actor...

I decided I want to play with it! But I wanted to change something before starting...Play pranks. What if we get rid of the first letter of each country? Everything stops making sense. What are we ordering now? Countries? Ountries? It doesn't make sense any more...And that is what I am interested in! the function of the list gets spoiled and the relation of the word with the geographical land gets really loose as well.

In order to illustrate this idea visually I've made a ring linking every country in this NEW ORDER, like in a list, all the countries are standardized to fit in the same frame. In the ring the edge of one country overlaps the country set before..we don't care about the political borders or the idea of step one land with another one.

Suddenly the map we are used to see becomes a ring...A door? A gate to another dimension? Absurdity in this case give cause for meaning development. If we don't understand the list, the words; if we don't understand the map, there must be for some reason. If the norms we have been using to understand and build the world have taken us to this senseless point we are living now, we must look for other alternatives.