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Description

Painting on wood

Year
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Materials

Pigment, linseed oil wax, graphite, oak wood

Credits

Photo: Erling Lykke Jeppesen, Laura Stamer

Project

Graphite and pigments on oak wood. A series of compositions examining the link between interlayered surfaces in a relation to the classical understanding of the concept of the Eikon as a functional object. Focusing on the immediate boundaries of the given piece of wood, the works aim to preserve and display their inherent form and condition, in a what you see is what you get kind of gesture that allows for shifting levels of abstraction and imagination. 

Painting on wood 
The objects are made with materials that are not industrially produced nor produced for the purpose of becoming pieces of art: wooden planks directly from the sawmill in the forest next to my studio, graphite, pigments and organic binders: materials used in execution of early ikons.  
When the objects have no more to express, they can be burnt in the stove.