http://www.opendemocracy.net/arts/street_signs_2486.jsp Comments for "'Shifting sand of history on the wall', Zsuzsanna Ardó " en http://www.opendemocracy.net/arts/street_signs_2486.jsp <div class="full_image"><p><img src="http://www.opendemocracy.net/content/articles/2486/images/shifting-sand-of-history-on.jpg" alt="© Zsuzsanna Ardó"width="555" border="0" /><br /><span class="image_caption"><div align="center"><i>Photographed by Zsuzsanna Ardó, Budapest, 1996</i></div></span></div><p>&#147;To be a Hungarian is a collective neurosis&#148; &#150; Arthur Koestler, author of <i>Darkness at Noon</i>.</p> <p>I took this photograph in Budapest in the mid-1990s. A new street-sign replaces an old one, but the old one remains on the wall, a big line drawn across it. To me, this photo is about the social representation of history shaping our universal consciousness and planting our orientation points. The photo is purposefully lacking in harmony: it&#146;s uneasy, off-balance and cluttered, pulling in different directions to subvert aesthetic expectation... and yet, the woman strides on.</p> <p><div class="rating-item"><div class="rating" id="rating_mean_2486"><div class="rating-intro"><span class="rating-intro-text">Average rating</span></div><div class="star avg"><a style="width: 100%;" onclick="return false;">&nbsp;</a></div> <div class="star avg"><a style="width: 100%;" onclick="return false;">&nbsp;</a></div> <div class="star avg"><a style="width: 100%;" onclick="return false;">&nbsp;</a></div> <div class="star avg"><a style="width: 100%;" onclick="return false;">&nbsp;</a></div> <div class="star avg"><a style="width: 100%;" onclick="return false;">&nbsp;</a></div><div class="num-votes">(<span id="rating_num_votes_2486">0</span> votes)</div></div><form action="/crss/node/2486" method="post" id="rating_form_2486" class="rating" title="Rating: 0.0"> <div><div class="form-item"> <label for="rating_options_2486">Rate this: </label> <select name="edit[rating]" class="form-select rating-options" title="Rate this" id="rating_options_2486" ><option value="0" selected="selected">---</option><option value="100">Excellent!</option><option value="80">Great!</option><option value="60">Good</option><option value="40">Quite good</option><option value="20">Not so great</option></select> </div> <input type="hidden" name="edit[nid]" id="edit-nid" value="2486" /> <input type="submit" name="op" value="Submit" class="form-submit" /> <input type="hidden" name="edit[form_id]" id="edit-rating-form-2486" value="rating_form_2486" /> </div></form> </div> http://www.opendemocracy.net/arts/street_signs_2486.jsp#comment europe arts &amp; cultures Original Copyright the small picture Zsuzsanna Ardó Sun, 08 May 2005 23:00:00 +0000 2486 at http://www.opendemocracy.net