The carefully supported branch symbolises appreciation and care.

The English and French term ‘alliance’ describes a mutual, beneficial relationship between individuals, groups or nations. An alliance is based on trust, shared interests and the pursuit of positive development through cooperation.

What alliances does this elaborately supported branch point to, both in terms of global developments and in terms of family and neighbourhood?

This fragility reveals a dilemma: often, people need, value and protect precisely what they neglect, exploit and destroy, or what slips from their grasp as time passes.