With the help of historians, Lucas conducted extensive research concerning the geo-political history of each continent, and then entered her findings into a computer program that allots one second to each year in world history. Each color represents a specific national identity, so that every color change represents an identity change. The movement of patches of color represent wars, invasions or population migration. Pantone standardizes the representation of all historical events, without any hierarchical order (for instance, events in Europe are represented in the same fashion as events of the same magnitude in Africa).

When we observe the changes in world history throughout the centuries, we come to realize that events of paramount importance in our own nation’s history may be quite negligible from a global point of view, and understand that everything is relative. Cristina Lucas’s work thus literally puts the world’s history, politics and geography “into perspective.”
G.L.

Cristina Lucas Born in Spain, 1973

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