Selected work

Embla

Subject: Abstract
Medium: Pyrography: Scorched Dead Elm Trees
Dimensions: Variable
Created: 2009

The artwork Embla was created for TICKON, Tranekær International Centre for Art in Nature in 2009. The starting point for this art intervention were three monumental Elm trees found in the Slottsparken (the Castle Park) in Langeland These unfortunate, majestic trees had succumbed to Dutch elm disease.

The commission story

In this artwork I utilised the whiteness of the dead elm’s tree trunks and branches as a canvas upon which I “drew” or more precisely used a form for pyrography to engrave/scorch virile structured forms. A technique that at the same time as marking also helps preserve the wood.

The outcome

The term art intervention applies to art designed specifically to interact with an existing structure or situation, be it another artwork, the audience, an institution or in the public domain, in this case three elm trees in a Castle estate.

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