Imagine writing a book only to have it safely stored unseen by anyone for up to 100 years.
This is the reality to which famous writers and poets are subjecting their work as part of The Future Library project.
It all starts with a forest of 1,000 trees planted near Oslo, Norway, which we will be harvested in 100 years and used to print a unique anthology – for people yet to be born! The anthology will be from books, poems or texts submitted by one author per year (one piece of work only) for the next 100 years and apart from its creator no other human being alive will have seen their work.
The creator of this living conceptual artwork is Katie Paterson, a Glaswegian visual artist. Trust is central to this project: trust that there is a future; trust that there will be a future that cares about…
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Wonderful!
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Ambitious project and one Native Americans would hail ~ consider 7 generations hence. Shared on all my pages 🙂
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Many thanks for the reblog, Chris!😀
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Welcome Annika 😀
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WOW! I would LOVE to be one of those authors… How cool
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Why not use this as an inspiration to arrange something like this for yourself and other Indies to do Annette 😀
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The words, “time capsule” crossed my mind while reading this.
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There you go Annette 😀
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At school we had a project one year collecting and collating information from our lives and the world around us before burying it in a time capsule – this is only a more organised and safer version!
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