Original artwork, not a still
Strength to Love · 1963
We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The reversal changes humanity’s relationship to history from authorship to formation. What might be imagined as a record people create is presented as a force that creates them. Repeating the same words in opposite roles makes the dependence on the past the centre of the statement.
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