Profil

 

In the folk art one usually took a piece of paper, folded it one or more times, cut through the several layers, opened it, and then one had cut something out that repeated itself and was symmetrical. This symmetry and repetition creates a pattern effect that has especially fascinated me in paper cuttings. Patterns have a stimulating effect on fantasy. One can fantasize over a pattern, begin at one end of the motive, run through the whole pattern and come back to the starting point, or one can choose any place in the middle and move out from there. Because the cutting is like an arabesque that bites itself in its tail, the movement goes on endlessly. One is never stopped, everything stands open. This is for me the strength of the pattern. It does not shut off thoughts, but one can add content to it herself.
 
My paper cuttings are a connected whole, which one can hold up from each corner. This demands that there are some points and strings to connect the network that the paper cutting makes, and these points and strings become a challenge to use in ones pictorial expression. These same points and strings contribute also to creating the arabesque-like pattern. Sometimes I do not use the technique of folding; it depends on the character of the work, whether or not it is used.
 
In France they called cutting in paper ” L´Art des Pauvres” ( the poor people´s art form) because if one had a scissors, one could cut in what was already at hand, f. ex, packing paper, wallpaper, newspaper, etc. In that regard I have moved away from folk art, in that I use acid-free paper, light resistant (lysægte???) colors and very expensive scissors. But otherwise I still feel myself related to my childhoods Easter greetings. Thus I have worked year after year with developing and trying to give my expression to the folk art I began with as a child.

 

 

 

2010 "Illusterede Alfabet - Gætteleg med H. C. Andersen". Kle-art

2011 "Treading the Dance". Hovedland

 

Scenography, chasubles, ex libris, logos, giftwrap, Christmas decorations, posters (including Tivoli´s poster, Copenhagen 1992, and a poster for Churches Councils in Denmark 2000), industrial design.

 

Fyns Art Museum, Holstebro Art Museum, Southern Jutland´s Art Museum, Hans Christian Andersen´s House, Himmerlands Art Museum, Museum Holmen, Løgumkloster, Karen Blixen Museum Rungstedlund, New Carlsberg Fund, Andersen Hiroshima ,Japan, Tønder Museum, Sophienholm.