KROPP / BODY / CUERPO
2022 - ongoing
2022 - ongoing
This body of work was created in Kjerringøy, Norway, on the land where my grandfather was born. Since birth, I have visited these mountains, forests, and waters he grew up in. I have sunk deep down in this earth, bathed in her seas, and warmed our house by burning birch logs in the wood stove. This landscape has witnessed my baptism(s) and my rebirth.
In the video “KROPP / VANN (BODY / WATER),” made in 2022, I lay nude in the creek that runs through my family’s land and for the first time, I allow the mountainous landscape to see me and hold me in my truth. In the subsequent series of body-earthworks, created in 2023, I consider how the land itself is a body. These earthworks, made of found and collected natural materials on site, are left to the tides, winds, and animals. One year later, I document their degradation and return to the earth.
The earth is a body in transition.
In the video “KROPP / VANN (BODY / WATER),” made in 2022, I lay nude in the creek that runs through my family’s land and for the first time, I allow the mountainous landscape to see me and hold me in my truth. In the subsequent series of body-earthworks, created in 2023, I consider how the land itself is a body. These earthworks, made of found and collected natural materials on site, are left to the tides, winds, and animals. One year later, I document their degradation and return to the earth.
The earth is a body in transition.