I expand on my thoughts of the expansion of the Olympics in their meaning and their intention. I am not unaware of the world and from the privilege I reside knowing what happens each and every day around the world. Starvation, judgement, death, discountment. Unspoken battles everywhere that echo through our collective memories on either side of hardship or virtue. Liabilities of judgement always cast and never a single after-thought to the lost of life or the issues the world faces collectively. We combine and we divide depending on the issues at hand.

My focus has been on the unity the past week now knowing todays news, tomorrows news and yesterday’s history. I continue to defer to the Ancient and Modern Olympic games which comes as a struggle at times, but it is in those times that we must come together as one eventually. To fight is always going to be a case and as such in the Ancient Olympic games, it was always a lay down the guard to come together which was in known Global sport then and expansive now to more regions than before. Perhaps a fools game to try to bring people together when so much goes on in the world, but just as United Nations come together, so too do those divided to say we are world citizens.

My ideas are not about self-promotion, but what feels right and comes from a knowledge I’ll never know the lives I don’t and those who do and don’t get a story written about them. To some perhaps it is a stranger’s call to unify and think about what brings us together than divide, and perhaps it is a call to understand knowing I stay out of media and catch it at a glimpse. My goal is always understanding and unification.

Further notes on how Paris 2024 could mean so much more than the Olympic Games knowing now may or may not be the time to introduce knowing I am just a starving artist as others live/survive the day to day.

We are immigrants and guest of this world and united one way or another. Perhaps my 6 rings are not the right time, but all in a row we are connected. As noted in my images above, most represented colors to least is the order or flip it and put the least represented colors first backed up by the majority of us all being in this together.

Thank you for listening and coming across this. My heart to everyone.

-Philip Arthur Bonneau

*A missed message of thought from the other night. A standardized version of the rings necessary in color. Each country shows their flag pride with their countries nationality. The rest grey’ed out but still unified. A universal connection between one country to the next that is awesome to explore.