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Recurring PictogramsThe rst photo journal of Jonas Svedin
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Jonas Svedin, 2010Introduction: Andreas Sundgren
ISBN:Print: h:strm
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Recurring Pictograms, the rst photo journal of Jonas Svedin
It is a life extra ordinary. Like any life Extra and Ordinary and like in
any life, recurring images. Repetitions no less extraordinary.
Jonas has captured his own life and some of those around him
quickly, in step and motion. Technical brilliance is not the issue
here, at least what there is of it is well hidden.
No, there is a journey here, or maybe more of a trip.
It is very tting that this journal starts with a window because
windows come back throughout it. You look into one and suddenly
nd yourself in the next landscape, borne there by the recurring
images of wings.
Different wings at different points in time but still wings. Some of
the wings tted onto feet of someone in another time and place.
These feet with wings are bare. They are in a place where there is no
need for the warmth of shoes. This will change with time. As will
the vessel onto which the wings are tted. As will the sky through
which the ights are taken.
In between ights you will nd repetitions. Repetitions that come
together, that are related, in spite of their differences in time and
space.
Man made shapes back to back with shapes of nature but very
obviously related. Trees, roads, skies, windows. Windows both onto
the outside, onto the next place, as well as onto the self.
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Representations of those parts of l ife that are ordinary. That we all
live through. But also representations that can only be caught once
and that pose questions because they are pictograms from a different
time as uninterpretable as the ancient pictograms found on rock
walls. We can guess at their meaning we cannot know for sure.
Why is that man on re? Why did you get into that ght?
Where does this hole in the ground really lead? Who wrote this?
Pictograms within the pictograms. Painted walls everywhere.
Darkness envelopes the last part of this journal. It is not however
a darkness of the mind but rather the darkness of geography and
time of day. The bare feet have been clad in more robust shoes. The
wings have long ago been tted onto a jet or onto a car. A different
life with different shades. Again captured in journal with no wish
to distinguish or rearrange the light and the dark, the night and the
day.
There is a life here. Like any life a variable but again recurring one.
A limited timespan and a specic human beings language conveyed
in images. Images like humans, animals, celestial bodies, shapes and
patterns. The very denition of the pictogram.
So where does it lead? It leads to wherever the road in the end takes
us. Human shape crossing the landscape. Into the next pictogram.
Andreas Sundgren
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