Sprængt Alfabet

The title translates Broken Alphabet. Series of 14 works: Ink on photographic print in handmade frames of aluminium and steel, 21 x 27 cm, 2024

Sprængt Alfabet ( No. 1)

21 x 27 cm.

Looking at cracks and patterns that appear in weathered stones, these works use geology to talk about body, gender and grief. Back in 2013, a few months after my brother died, I went to Svalbard for a month. I had been planning this trip for a year, had been looking so much forward. So I simply couldn't cancel. Instead I wanted to leave the patterns of grief I had created at home. I wanted to get out. It was my first time travelling alone, and I needed the silence.

I walked in the mountains and kept finding these stones that had been broken by the frost. They had gone through a violent transformation, which had changed their bodies permanently – but also allowed them to reach further. I photographed them, finding new ones

each day. I've saved these photographs all this time, and now, 11 year later, it became clear to me, what I wanted to do with them. I made drawings, reproducing the patterns in the cracks. Like soft interpretations of their new signatures. The stones speak to me, not only about falling apart, but also about coming together in new ways. About adapting and growing when under pressure. About still being the same – but also new. And about finding a new langusge, a broken alphabet.

Sprængt Alfabet ( No. 2)

21 x 27 cm.