Looking Back to go Forward
2022
‘Looking back to go forward’ Recycled plywood, metal, acrylic. 2022. 40 x 30 x 6 cm. Manufactured by CNC Miling Tallinn. Metal plates - Tõnis Luik (blacksmith).
‘Brexit embodies a vision that Zygmunt Bauman might have diagnosed as retrotopian: a nostalgic vision for the future based upon a lost but undead past. As such, the nature of the UK’s self-narrative – constantly reproduced via popular culture and the media — can thus help explain why arguments pertaining to “sovereignty” resonate so powerfully in the Brexit debate among older, wealthier, and more nationalistic Englishmen, who have certainly not been left behind.’
— Paul David Beaumont (Norwegian University of Life Sciences)
The original double arrow sign is owned by © Secretary of State for Transport 2011 ( UK government)