Tabula Rasa by Erik Funck on Uddenskulptur 2021
Time has branched out in the past, such as during the falsification of the history of national romanticism at the beginning of the last century, in Borge’s short story El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan which was published in 1941 and for Michael J. Fox in Back to the Future in the 1980s.
In Karin Johannisson’s Melancholic Room from 2009, she writes about how contemporary emptiness has lost contact with its tormenting spirits and thus also its possible salvation. The present flows freely, as does the experience of history.
The term Tabula rasa, Latin for “blank painting”, dates back to Aristotle and the Stoics of ancient Greece. In the 17th century, the term was popularized by the British philosopher John Locke. It was applied to the idea of how the child is born as an unwritten leaf, free from social and genetic inheritance.
As truths are transformed into opinions, previously common perceptions become relativized, unclear, and eventually completely inaccessible. Text returns to incomprehensible form.
You are facing a long-revered monument, can you interpret its message?
