Freeing the Landscape
In ‘Freeing the Landscape’, I consider eschewal by removing ideological signs from archival materials. What would happen if some past facts were erased, would they stop exists in human memory? Postcard pictures from Communist era in Eastern Europe trigger the imagination, and emotion becomes central to this work. Thus, I erase old Communist monuments and perhaps difficult memories. Looking at a postcard, we expect to see a monument, a famous building, a travel destination, or another well-known place. By looking at a half-blank postcard, the sight becomes deflected. In this cycle, I use a circle as a metaphor of forgetting. By deleting data I abruptly erase Communist symbols. What happens if current advanced tools are used by followers of a new ideology?
