Female Rune 2017-2019
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interference
My Project: Female Rune
I experience the female as one of the strongest archetypes, both in human life and in nature, but suppressed – especially with the entry of Christianity and the Church into our history around the year 1000.
Today, both the notion of something “spiritual”, female, vegetative which can affect us in nature, and the awareness of natural femininity, love, sexuality still suppressed in consumer society, often replaced by consumer sex, primitive pornography or a focus on percentage representation here and there. All life consists of creation, development, regression, death.
Therefore, pre-Christian love goddesses – who also represented forces in nature – were goddesses of both love and death. Thor Johnson wrote: If I were a god, I would create love and death, only love and death. I try to look for something essentially feminine with the help of my photos, strong and weak, life and death. The images are attempts to evoke this, often represented by ancient goddesses, eg Frøya, Innana, and by feminine elements in nature. I call them runes, which in our time are best known as letters in an ancient alphabet, but which long before were established as magical symbols, precisely for evoking fundamental forces in nature and human life.
I have experimented for many years to find a technique that suits my expression. I use a lot of metals, gold, silver, brass, copper, tin, aluminium, smoked silver, palladium, platinum. I oxidize those that are suitable so that the substrate comes through, when I want it, and colors can appear. Interference colors go well with the oxidized metals, colors that change from red to green (etc.) when we move. It can be difficult to obtain static digital images.
