Vertical Tree and Horizontal Sky Cross-Section Perspective Dissolve into Each Other in an Overarching Circle Home of Colorful Equilibrium

2018-2024
Materials: Acrylic on canvas.
70 x 70 cm

The first four paintings have the under-title: Dead and Life Transforming Lucky of Dear
Description: By what was our common cottage in Deralycke in Sweden, once stood a large, old and beautiful spruce with large heavy branches and cones. Some years ago the spruce was felled. The tree stump that remains, have I photographed and used it’s outline. It is seen in the second inner circle. The second outer circle is the horizon, consisting of trees and the cottage, seen in a circle around me when I stand close to the cottage. The two circular shapes are transformed inwards and outwards, respectively, into geometric circles. Tree stumps have become a symbol of death for me. They are left in nature for many years, while everything else that dies quickly rots and resumes by nature.

The next four paintings have the under-title: Okay and Birth Transforming Berth of Oxide
These four next paintings in the series are composed in the same way as the first four paintings, over a tree and a horizon. This time the tree is the tree in the backyard of my housing cooperative named Oxelberg in Copenhagen. It is a large and old tree whose crown reaches as high as the roof of the property, where my apartment is at the top of the roof. This time the next innermost shape in the painting is made from a notion of what a cross section would look like by measuring and looking at the tree. The horizon line is the one seen out of my windows around my apartment.

The last four paintings have the under-title: Finding Home in My Self at the Red Oak.

It takes place at Hospitalshaven at Frederiksberg. The horizon cirkle is from building 60 and the tree-circumference used here is an old Red Oak. It makes at strong symbolisme with Hospitalshaven and it’s future, and what I am working with there. It is not a new home, but a place for me to work with, which makes a lot of sense.