DEEP FOREST LEARNING
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Artist book/zine
24 pages, size: 14.8 x 21 cm, paperback, saddle stitch, English, 2022.
Displayed at the zine fair Cut Copy Paste organised by Singapore Artbook Fair and Things Books Shop and curated by Shrub, 2023.
The book is juxtaposing photos from tropical dipterocarp forests with texts on AI and machine learning, reflecting on whether the terminology in AI indicates a (subconscious) longing to re-connect with the natural world and/or whether there are possible deeper connections between nature’s living intelligence and artificial intelligence.
Photos of dipterocarp trees and forests are from Rimbun Dahan artist residency in Malaysia and the nature reserves Bukit Timah and MacRitchie in Singapore.
ELLESKUDT (ELF-SHOT)
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Artist book
44 pages, edition of 15, saddle stiched paperback, Danish and HTML language, 2022.
Based on Scandinavian folk tales about elves and on the alder swamps in the moraine landscape around Copenhagen, the artist book “ELLESKUDT” explores connections between language & landscape, image & text, and between the digital & the physical realities.
The title directly translates to “ELF-SHOT”, which in Scandinavian folk mythology means: the condition you suffer when you have been shot with invisible elf-arrows by the elves. When you are elf-shot you are sick, bewildered and enchanted. ELLEVILD means almost the same, but is also used today for ‘over excited’. And it is all going on in ELLESUMPENE (the alder swamps) where ELLETRÆERNE (the alder trees) grow and ELLEFOLKET (the elves) live.
SCANDINAVIAN SPRING COLLECTION
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Scandinavian Spring, a collection of forest fashion for women (mixed materials: cotton and chiffon).
The patterns of the garments are created digitally on spot in the forest, followed by digital printing on textiles, which are then sewn into garments on demand, 2022 onwards.
Each garment is accompanied by a booklet.
Instead of aiming for a representation of nature (e.g. landscape painting or photography), the work is meant to be an activating link between "the viewer/wearer" and nature. The work reflects a desire to reconnect with nature, in this case a typical spring beech forest in Denmark.
The clothes are feminine and not what we traditionally consider as outdoor garments. Instead they aim to let the wearer adapt and honour the local surroundings and to experience a different kind of natural understanding.
👉🏼 CATWALK
MADE IN MACRITCHIE
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A collection of garments made for walking in MacRitchie Nature Reserve, a tropical rainforest in Singapore.
The patterns of the garments are created digitally on spot in the forest, followed by digital printing on textiles, which are then sewn into garments on demand.
This "forest fashion outfit" asks the wearer to explore issues of (be)longing, how to become a local and adapt, strangeness and perception of nature and self.
The garments have been used and exhibited in various form in Forest Fantasies and Other Forestic Affairs at L'Observatoire, 2019, MacRitchie Me: Turning to Bewilder(ed) in the group exhibition Maybe at Institute of Contemporary Art at LASALLE College of the Arts, 2017, MacRitchie Me in the group exhibition Ephemera at the Substation, Singapore, 2016, and at range of art events and walks in Singapore, 2016-23.
DIPTEROWHAT?
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Artist book/zine
36 pages, 14 x 19,5 cm, edition of 5, digital print on paper and hand painted ink on rice paper, hand-stiched, English and Latin.
Exhibited and sold by Squelch Zines at Singapore Art Book Fair 2014, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore.
Dipterowhat? is a collection of random (field and forest) notes from an investigation into dipterocarp trees, a family of hardwood, tropical trees comprising about 500 species. They are the defining trees of the original rainforest in Singapore and tropical Southeast Asia.
The dipterocarp forests are the tallest and most diverse rainforests in the world, but many of the dipterocarp species and their affiliated ecosystems are endangered due to extensive logging.
The name "dipterocarpus" is derived from Greek meaning: di = two, pteron = wing and karpos = fruit and refers to the two-winged fruit.
The research into dipterocarp forests later continued into projects such as MacRitchie Me: Turning to be Wilder(ed).
CASH & CARRY CANVASES
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A series of landscape paintings made of costumized recycled landscape paintings and textiles. Small "consumer information" booklets were attached to the paintings.
These paintings play on conventional ideas of art, consumption and sustainability. They were exhibited as part of the Open Multi-Stakeholder Event on CSR-driven Innovation at Erhvervsstyrelsen,
Copenhagen, 2008.
KVIDDERKVAD / CHEEP CHIRP
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Artist book
Title: Kvidderkvad: 44 Forårsforestillinger (Cheep Chirp: 44 Spring Singing Shows)
48 pages, size: 14 x 14 cm, paperback, hand-stitched, mixed Danish, Swedish, English, and German.
Graphical representations of birdsongs as described in manuals for bird watchers.
Originally exhibited and sold in book form at The Spring Exhibition (Forårsudstillingen), 2004, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Copenhagen Art Shop, and Dansk Ornitologisk Forening (The Danish Society for the Protection of Birds).
PRUNE POETRY
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Artist book/zine in recycled jam jar
Title: PRUNES & PRISMS (Prune Poetry)
16 pages, size: 14.5 x 17.5 cm, paperback, hand-stitched, mixed Danish and English
Published by Prune Press, Copenhagen, 2007.
Prunes & Prisms is a limited edition series of handmade artist books presented in jam jars. These works have been exhibited at the Singapore Art Book Fair, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art in 2018, and Overgadens Bogmesse at the Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art in Copenhagen in 2007.
Prune Poetry is an evolution of the piece showcased in the group exhibition Working with Paul Thek at Camden Arts Centre, London, in 2000.
THESE PAINTINGS ARE MADE FOR WALKING
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Acrylic on shoe soles, exhibited in the group exhibition Money without Limits at Øksnehallen, Copenhagen, 2003.
Botanical flower paintings are often associated with women's art, seen as a 'feminine' leisure activity with origins in Victorian culture. In this work, the paintings are made to be worn - and worn away - bringing a touch of 'flower power' to wearer of the typically masculine business shoes.
ANIMAL DISPERSAL
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Jewellery made of seeds, plastic, precious stones and folk phrases.
Exhibited as part of Wild Wood Woman and are now dispersed.
OUTfit
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Evolutionary fashion made by natural selection.