
This is a close up of the screen of an etch a sketch!
"A monument does not commemorate or celebrate something that happened but confides to the ear of the future the persistent sensations that embody the event............. a monument that is always in the process of becoming, like those tumuli to which each new traveler adds a stone."
(Deleuze and Guattari 1994:176)
This tumuli... or a cairn. A cairn is a manmade pile of stones, which in modern times is often erected as a landmark, but in ancient times was erected as a sepulchral monument. (They can mark a burial site, or can memorialise the dead) We are not commemorating a death, but this idea of our monument being added to as our society grows is interesting. What is it exactly within our society that we are commemorating at the moment? What is it that our monument would be standing for? What would it mean to our society? How can we make it something that does mean something to us as a society? Our monument could be something that grows with time. A record of how we develop together, that will in the future bring back to us how we came to be. Presuming that ultimately we shall all be harmonious hybrids, this monument could stand for the process.