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It's been five days. Dirty fingernails and clothes that smell like fire and seawater. Fish guts and mushrooms, wood carvings and plaster. Twice-soaked and twice-dried-by-the-fire socks litter every surface. Red from fresh air, fourteen faces surround the table, the table a woodcut, the woodcut a plaster cast, the cast, a call. A touch. Black from charcoal, and blue from berries. The wind telling the trees stories. Here, cooking and knitting sit side-by-side with sound experiments and dinnertime portraiture. Walking, collecting, wandering, investigating, swimming. Stacking wood is a daily task, it becomes our art work. We are performing our labour. Twice-soaked and twice-dried-by-the-fire. Attention drawn between mountain tops and conversations. American Tourister performing both sides of their alienation.
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There is nothing like life in free vertigo. Some say vertigo is not the fear of falling – but the fear of throwing yourself over the edge. As I jump, the falling lifts my t-shirt, my lower back italic tattooed ‘Carpe diem’. Let go of the edge, find yourself in the gap. In the in-between, the air between, the emptiness surrounding you. Opening up, an immense open space. Full of possibilities. Tiptoe along the faint trail on the edge left by the moose.
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I once imagined nature as something strictly concerning the outside. A distance. Then I noticed light coming in through the windows of the wooden house.
During an eight day study trip to the magical and remote place Sagfjorbotn in Sørfold, Nordland, Northern Norway, Prof. Stephan Dillemuth (Munich), Sveinung Unneland
(PHD-fellow at KMD) and Prof. Thomas Kilpper (KMD) together with students Diana Bitar, Laura Gaiger, Anna Franciska Gottlieb, Marie Jenssen, Andrea Grundt Johns, Elīna Krima, Margrethe Emilie Kühle, Ida Mårdhed, Sonja Nordstrøm, Kaeto Sweeney and Emilie Wright have been exploring, discussing, reflecting and exchanging experiences through woodcut and 3D printmaking and the making of charcoal. These exchanges and explorations are presented as works in progress in various states of collective gathering presented in and between Joy Forum and the Outdoor Studio.