Exhibition: 13-24 May at Konstfack
Rickard Barendsen
Don't Worry, It's Ok. Surrender to The Void
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Rickard Barendsen
Sweden, b. 1994
There is a void in me,
between my thoughts,
hidden behind all the noise,
is where it resides.
From a distance, it appears frightening,
an unyielding darkness, infinite in its reach.
What horrors lurks in its depths?
To meet it, one must surrender,
let go of certainty,
release the grip of the ego.
In this void, meaning dissolves,
hope for the future fades,
the weight of the past drifts away.
Only the present remains,
and the demand to be in it.
I once feared the darkness, the unknown.
Now I see it as a part of myself,
an essential, unexplored aspect of my being.
The void no longer threatens;
it moves, it beckons,
softly, playfully.
It waves.