Ideas cannot be fossilized, 2023-26
This project is currently being developed into several public artworks; one can already be seen in Ulricaparken, Ulricehamn.
In Ideas cannot be fossilized, granite sculptures are created from children’s drawings. Through workshops exploring cave paintings, rock carvings, and runestones, children are invited to reflect on what is worth preserving for the future. The project investigates drawing as a universal language, connecting children’s image-making to questions of memory, human traces, and existence. Once carved into stone, the drawings become both time capsules and collective narratives of our present.
Jacques Lacan argued that children enter society through language. This project asks whether giving children’s creative expressions a place within culture might enable us to see the world around us with new eyes.
This project is partly inspired by the consciousness-raising pedagogy of the Brazilian educator Paolo Freire; he believes that by becoming aware of one's reality, one becomes a co-creator in ones culture and, in the long run, also a co-creator in ones history.
