09/10/2012
"We are locked in history, and they were not."
-Werner Herzog
The modern man's most formidable battle is with the acceptance of his place within the world and it's history. With knowledge summed from the theories of previous generations on the past and the future, we have involuntarily inherited the feeling of being "stuck" in the present. The cavemen of the Chauvalet Cave did not have this. They saw a blank canvas when truly blank canvases existed, there was no history so they created it. Our generation has history in every particle surrounding our bodies. From 18th century paintings and buildings to inventions that make daily life tolerable, our life is surrounded with someone else's legacy and work. We are aware of all the history encompassing us, and to use the most cache of caches; "with great power, comes great responsibility." With every work we create, we must analyze if it has been created before. Attempting to validate our own originality. Thus, we are trapped in history, glaring at the cavemen who were free to create it without a single limitation.
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