"Schopenhauer once wrote that the limits of one’s own field vision are often taken to be the limits of the world’s. The purpose of the intellectual and the artist is to aspire to see the world as a whole. Boundaries, walls and borders are to be seen through and the visionary achievement is the measure of all artistic engagement. Challenging Walls is indeed such a visionary enterprise and its creative imagination compels one to reflect afresh about the condition of political division. It should always be remembered that, having been seen through, walls may also remain because their purpose is practical and not artistic. Art, like poetry, may change nothing because walls (sometimes) can be politically necessary, setting limits within which practical life is possible. Belfast provides an interesting example of how the boundaries of limited fields of vision made (so-called) peace lines a necessity and an interesting example the encounter between these limits and those of the world’s."

                                                                                                                                        Prof. Arthur Aughey
                                                                                                                                        University of Ulster