Christer Björkman

"Signed Off"

Signed Off is a project about existential questions. Is it enough to only exist? Wandering around my neighborhood, I started seeing 'naked' poles of metal. I started photographing them. Don't really know why. Questions started to arise. What was the purpose of these poles? Had they at some point had signed attached to them, as many similar poles nearby. Had those signs become obsolete? Why was the pole still there if it no longer served any obvious purpose? These more practically oriented questions soon gravitated towards more philosophical ones. If you, in this case a pole, 'lose' your purpose is it enough to only exist? We humans may ask ourselves what the meaning of life is. If we serve any purpose. Some humans may ask such questions a bit too often. But do we need to serve a purpose? We humans may eventually ask ourselves the vital (livsavgörande) /critical question 'To be or not to be?'. Poles cannot.