Pearl flower (2021) The work "Perleblomst" is originally part of a larger photographic study of the meaning, weight and symbolism we attach to the cut flowers that remain after funerals. An encounter between faith, science and sensuality. In our installation for Kunstrom SKOGEN we have chosen to take this work out of its original context, and into the forest which is the natural environment of the flowers. Where we pick them for different uses and occasions. The installation consists of a medium format camera and a photograph composed of hundreds of exposures from a microscope, to create an image that can only be made visible through photographic methods. Can we then see what we cannot see with the naked eye? Make the hereafter visible? The forest becomes a spiritual space. The camera in the forest creates an expectation of what we will see. It should draw our surroundings, but what happens when the motive that meets us is something else? When the expected reality is a completely different landscape or a luminous cosmos found on the tip of a small pearl flower. Maybe it can be a reminder that the forest is a place that holds more than what we see and a place we can take in with all our senses.
