We are Here : perception, experience, movement, production

Untitled, 2006-2007

In 2007 I made a wall painting on a corridor at the Art Academy. I worked with it for four months about two hours every day. I had a set of rules I decided to follow through the process of making the painting. The main idea was to work intuitive with drawing to explore my drawing skills in a direct way without being bound to themes or motive. So I could not bring source material, sketches or pictures to the space where I worked. Every part of the physical process was bound to happen on the wall and in the space I had decided to work. It all started out in an abstract way using pencil, drawing small shapes which together made a pattern. In that pattern I started seeing figures and shapes and then I made those clearer with charcoal, color and white paint. Under the whole process I was all the time adding and taking away material, so that the wall painting ended up having a lot of layers. In april I had to stop working on the painting even though it was not finished, because the surroundings claimed it back and the wall ended up white again with my wall painting underneath.So in 2009 I started to think about the possibility of making an excavation of it, to see how it looked after the process of making the wall white again.I tried different techniques and the one which was most efficient was actually finding the right layer by washing a small part of the paint away and peel the paint off in flakes. The painting is now on its way to be re-descovered but with “wounds” and marks after the tools I used in the process of bringing it back. 

2009, Peeling away the paint.