A Continual Unfolding - continued (2024-2025)
The series ‘A Continual Unfolding’ is an exploration of the uncontrollable, of giving in to the unknown and an openness to whatever is unfolding before us. The desire we have to control our surroundings, and how on the contrary this leads to a disconnection with our natural world, has been a starting point in seeking ways of opening up to a more intuitive interaction with our environment, in which we find beauty in the unexpected. By working with Polaroid film, with its inherently mysterious character and often unpredictable outcome, I allow myself to be guided by the direction the material wants to take, and to find ways of surrendering to this uncertainty.
Through constructing collages out of photographic material, I create scenes that resemble landscapes, and the formation and disruption of natural phenomena. The final artwork is the coming together of several unique Polaroid’s, every single one distorted in such a way that there is no image left, and only the internal materials of the Polaroid’s remain, resulting in many small chemical landscapes of their own. While the pieces are made out of photographic material, they can also be seen as paintings, as the main image is made up by the washed away pigment layer within the film.
At the same time I play with our perception of reality and examines photography’s role within this process. By utilizing the contradiction of a photographic collage that resembles a realistic landscape, yet which is a fictitious image made by puzzling together the distorted and abstracted film until the pieces connect, our conception of how the photographic image comes to life is being challenged.
Due to the distortion of the film, the pieces are never fully set, constantly asking the viewer to pay attention, and to give in to the uncertainty of not knowing what the work might look like in the future. The instability of the materials, as well as the imagery of natural phenomena, touch upon themes of changes within our natural surroundings and our relationship to this, and of finding acceptance and beauty in the natural ebb and flow of the world around us.
The series ‘A Continual Unfolding’ is an exploration of the uncontrollable, of giving in to the unknown and an openness to whatever is unfolding before us. The desire we have to control our surroundings, and how on the contrary this leads to a disconnection with our natural world, has been a starting point in seeking ways of opening up to a more intuitive interaction with our environment, in which we find beauty in the unexpected. By working with Polaroid film, with its inherently mysterious character and often unpredictable outcome, I allow myself to be guided by the direction the material wants to take, and to find ways of surrendering to this uncertainty.
Through constructing collages out of photographic material, I create scenes that resemble landscapes, and the formation and disruption of natural phenomena. The final artwork is the coming together of several unique Polaroid’s, every single one distorted in such a way that there is no image left, and only the internal materials of the Polaroid’s remain, resulting in many small chemical landscapes of their own. While the pieces are made out of photographic material, they can also be seen as paintings, as the main image is made up by the washed away pigment layer within the film.
At the same time I play with our perception of reality and examines photography’s role within this process. By utilizing the contradiction of a photographic collage that resembles a realistic landscape, yet which is a fictitious image made by puzzling together the distorted and abstracted film until the pieces connect, our conception of how the photographic image comes to life is being challenged.
Due to the distortion of the film, the pieces are never fully set, constantly asking the viewer to pay attention, and to give in to the uncertainty of not knowing what the work might look like in the future. The instability of the materials, as well as the imagery of natural phenomena, touch upon themes of changes within our natural surroundings and our relationship to this, and of finding acceptance and beauty in the natural ebb and flow of the world around us.
