See what I do, what inspires me, which books I read, and who I follow.
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Sand
With @detgråfyr, Danish Nature Agency and Ministry of Environment and Food of Denmark. At Det Grå Fyr, Skagen. April 8th, 2023 through October 2023.
An exhibition about the wonders and use of sand as 1.000.000.000.000.000.000.000 sand grains, sand as the second most used raw materiale in the world, and sand becoming in short supply, makes it important to understand.
Larch Grove Museums
Maria Viftrup and I are creating the large-scale nature-based artworks Larch Grove Museums for a publich housing area in Brønshøj in Denmark. The work comprises 150 brass poles each carrying a glass bell with samples of biodiversity and human leftovers from the area. The longest poles will support vulnerable branches of 15 old iconic larch trees in the park designed by one of the most famous Danish landscape architects C.T.H. Sørensen.
The buildings are designed by renowned Danish architect Kay Fisker.
Safety in basements
Stories that begin in a basement never end well. We know it from movies. If Julia Roberts is in a basement, she is in trouble. If the villain is down there,he is up to something illegal, and if James Bond is in a basement, he will probably wake up with dents in his head. There are absolutely, no stories that begin in a basement that ends well.
I have been working with AAB and AlmenNet to design methods for creating safty in basements in public housing.
Root / System
A wild exhibition about roots and their wonderful systems — in a former prison. Roots absorb nutrients, form part of diverse networks, create communication between trees, form soil structure and is the foundation for the production apparatus which enables the circulation of life.
Maria Viftrup and I examined the systems that unfold below and above ground. We looked at underground structures as a colossal organic factory where all life and death is produced and repeated. In the old Vridsløselille Prison on the Renæssancejord exhibition platform, we filled the cells with drawings in soil, roots that crawl out of cells, systematic factories and root shadows on paper.
Mary, National Danish Children’s Hospital
The new national children's hospital in Denmark aims to become the best in the world. Integration of art and nature is part of the strategy to achieve the goal. I have made works for the testing room for grief and loss and am now working on a large collective work for the hospital's living room for children, relatives and pregnant women.
What I read, see and follow?
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I follow as many as possible, from very many different fields. I obviously love Maria Viftrup's work, follow @catherine Kleier's online lectures 'An Introduction to Botany', enjoy Stefano Manucso's work The International Laboratory for Plant Neurobiology and PNAT in Florence. I follow globalcommonsalliance.org, and read what they come up with regarding protection of what we share. I follow @SuzanneSimard, @PaolaAntonelli, @NeriOxman, @DustAnja, #francishalle. @kewgardens is a favorite source of knowledge.
Great books
When I work with art and plants I listen to audio books. Some to learn more, others to simply enjoy.
Some of my favourites now are The Song of The Dodo by Davis Quammen, Hope Jahren’s Lab Girl and The Story of More; Jane Goodall’s Seeds of Hope and Where the Crawdads sing by Dalia Owens. But do not forget: Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard, Diana Beresford-Kroeger’s to Speak for the Trees, and Overstory by Richard Powers.