My intention with the project is to investigate existential questions of human
vulnerability, loneliness and homelessness
and the responsability that we have for each other in life. And
what we do with our shared public space, if it is really public and a place for
everyone.
The definition of the public space is intimately connected
with our ideas of how it uis to be a human being and what kind of society we
should create.
On
the anniversary of the great battle of the elms.
A figure at the elms in Kungsträdgården Garden in Stockholm. .
Here
lies a figure - an old man.
It looks as if he i sleeping. He
is on the
side
almost
in fetal position.Thus
I sleep,
I think,
I
and
millions of others.
We lies
as in a memory ofour
fetal period.When
we
patiently
waited to
be born
into the world.
On the
day
we see
it,
the world,
at night
we return to
the big
sleep
that surround
our lives.
The old
man may be dead,
dead in a frozen moment, the body does not decompose by flames or worms.
The old man lies there forever. But in the darkness shines the body,
a slightly seasoned reflection of the sun´s rays - greenish. A beacon in
universe
Anna
writes that man is a place.
It´s so beautiful to think that way. When we otherwise think of human life it is
mainly time we think of, how slowly we are aging and how slow our body breaks
down,the so-called entropy.
However, if we relate a human life´s timeframe to the timeframe of the universe,
a human life will be as short as a point, a place where time and space become
one and the same. Man is a place.
