ELLESKUDT (ELF-SHOT)

Based on Scandinavian folk tales about elves and on the alder swamps in the moraine landscape around Copenhagen, the artist's 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.