Exhibited

Exhibited photographs ”Parts and varieties of a world” headlights a new prospective of completed Land art projects during the last 10 years. This prospective presents moments during travel and working with Land art, and may offer a gimps of artistic intention throughout 8 project in process. Size: 40x60, 50,70 cm.

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Exhibited

DORMANT - outdoor installation

Dormant is an installation made for an exhibition with sculptures for a specific private garden. The exhibition took place on a yearly Art event at NORSESUND 17-18^th of september 2011. You approach the art piece from above and the sight is a floor covered with rowan berries. In the mittle of the basin floor – a bath tub is standing. The bath tub is empty. Dormant is an installation about melancholy and a sense of human absence. The installation made use of a site with a natural basin formation at the top of a granite hill in the garden. Size: Basin floor 3x6 m.

FRIENDS AND COLLEGUES

A friend of mine, Torbjorn Hahne ( torbjorn-hahne.se) works with sculptures in different materials. He lives in the forest and the working space kind of stretches out in the surrounding around his house, beside the garage, paths in to the forest and many other places close to his house.

He works both indoor, and outdoor. Inside mainly preparing clay and ceramic. Outside completing art pieces with raku, or with his woodcarving tools. He too, likes to travel and there is always something new to discusse or discover at his place.

Objects may not aper at first sight, it is a working space, not a gallery.

You may stumble over a piece almost overgrown by weeds and branches in his garden, and you realize that somehow this piece of sculpture is not forgotten even though it may look that way.

No in it´s own right - everything pays an important part in an ongoing process. It is a great place to visit.

ART PROJECT ALONG PILGRIM ROUTE

The class room

This years (2011) Landart project along a pilgrim route was a commissioned project for regional development by Västra Götaland in Falköpings municipality, Sweden. This artpiece is situated close to a small village, just beside the pilgrimtrack. Along all 7 pilgrim routs in this region, different mental concepts may be used as a mental focus along the walk. At this particular streach the concept ”slowness” is interduced as a leading word for the event of walking. So this work is a contemplation about time and the contemporary phenomena ”slowness”. Visualy the ojects beeing used in this piece, gives us a lead about time in comparancy between a human life (or activeties) and the growth of pine trees. This years project was also designed as a pedagogical program, where pupils from primary local school were involved in both design process and production of the artpiece. This titel is chosen in order to headlight this particular process, involving educational institutaions with artprojects. But also this title may give us a sence of curiosity for learning, along the path of life...

Size: 18x18x18 m (triangular shape).

Material:

Pinesite, 90 worn shooes, pine plants, plant soil, birchwood constructions.

Site: 2 km north of Gudhem, Sweden.

For more information; se text about project made 2010 ( tagg; landartprojects)

LANDARTPROJECT IN MONGOLIA 2010

White scripture on black vertical lines

This project is inspired by Mongolian calligraphy based on Mongolian language. Mongolian language has since thousand years back in time, been written on a vertical line. And by using this technique by writing, vertical Bruch strokes has become a major character in the esthetical expressions of contemporary Mongolian calligraphy.
Size: Length; 2 meter. With; 0-1 meter.
Material: Bones, Tree, cloth
Site: Mongolia, Zuumod Aimag

LANDARTPROJECT IN MONGOLIA 2010

Playground - largescaled "Shagai"

This artproject was inspired by a Mongolian game called Shagai.
The game items are made by bones from cheep skeleton(vertebra). The bones are being died in to different colors (purple, blue, yellow green). There are more than 300 different ways you can play with “Shagai” and the game is today manly used by nomad children.
This project deals with a large smilingly endless visual sight of a landscape. The outcome has a similarity in its visual language as looking back at the project in the Atacama Desert (2007).
The project also has a connection with thoughts about death. Playground might be a space where our lives and death are exposed.
Size: 30 meter
Material: Stone, bones, Mongolian landscape
Site: Mongolia, Zuunmod Aimag

To worship the sun in a contemporary life style

Going on hollyday at the seaside in Uruguay, I became a witness to a local tradition and a modern way of paying attention to a natural force in a highly ritualized way. Arriving early evening at the 1 of January in Piriapolis, east cost of Uruguay, I was surprised to find such a crouded beach and city! People were hanging around waiting to make their contribution to the sun, -as most habitats do every 1 of January only in Piriapolis.

Half an hour before sunset, people lined up at the beach, facing the Atlantic ocean and a setting sun.Load speakers were places along the sea score, and one person were guiding the whole cloud through a ceremonial action by speaking in a microphone standing at the beach as well. Everyone did as the speaker said. They closed their eyes, opened their hearts to the sun as the voice suggested, lifted their hands towards the sun, all at once and with warm feelings and thought control, they spread their message of love, contribution and light - to the rest of the world.

It was a very unusual event, and quite impressive since the line or unbroken chain, (as they liked to describe the event) was stretching a couple of kilometers. Hundreds and hundreds of people were lining up, all kinds; children, grannies, men women, young, old. Some were standing at the pavement further up close to buildings, just looking, silently, noon spoke a word during 40 min. Just watching a chain of humans, an ocean bathing in shifting colors and a setting sun.

How and when this started I do not know, but it was simply one of this things that traveling brings along as best.