As part of the Porosity Valley 2: Tricksters’ Plot project, this diagram utilizes multifaceted graphical elements related to the recent Yemeni refugee crisis of 2018 in South Korea. In the center of the mural stand three nearly life-sized figures wearing masks, each of whom resembles stratum, tide, and stone. The figures are standing on or next to the 3D graphics of strata. They seem to resemble aliens, non-humans, ghosts, or gods – emblems which might illuminate the complex positionality of the migrants or humanitarian status holders who were recently displaced by the ongoing Yemen War. Due to widespread Islamophobia and xenophobia, Middle Eastern populations in South Korea have been forced to exist in a liminal space between borders between South Korea and Yemen. However, since the formation of the Earth, tectonic plates have been in constant migration, together with the human beings, data, and minerals that have layered themselves above. Hence the borders which continue erupting, collapsing, and colliding – aren’t we all temporary, ever-migrating entities?
Along with the three masked figures are documents and graphic images that were redesigned from the actual governmental and juridical documents, that the immigrants would have encountered during the complex migration procedures into South Korea. The diagram serves to question the modes of contemporary migrants and refugees’ representation.

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