A few years ago I bought a big german Ceramic Ovn (aka Kiln) as I got the idea that it was time to expand into Ceramics. They delivered it outside my city studio on a cold winter day even though I had ordered to be delivered to my country side one in the Northern part of Zealand. I had to buy two construction workers pizza in order to convince them to drag the 200 kilo Kiln to my car and lift it inside where it barely fitted. I then proceeded to the countryside driving 60 km an hour on the highway as I was afraid my grandmothers old Ford would buckle under the weight. It didn’t but it did buckle a year later.
Then a month ago me and Carolina Echeverri got the idea to make ceramic rings in the Kiln. Ambitiously we decided to do 99 which in retrospect was a crazy idea but crazy is fun too. Hans Alf Gallery had invited me to make some ceramics for a group show that they would host and had initially asked me to do some Vases. However it’s only natural to stray from an assignment.
The Unused Love Letters was a title from a notebook of mine from 2009. So it’s actually 10 years old which has confirmed my belief in never ever to throw anything away. Titles are just words waiting for the right work to come by.
Each ring carry it’s own title. It’s own reference and direction.
The Unused Love Letters is actually Carolina and mine’s first art collaboration. That being said Carolina has always been the first one to see a new work of mine, always a guidance, critique and inspiration for me so it was very natural to cooperate on this mad project.
We hope you will join us for the opening Friday the 25th of October at Hans Alf Gallery!
oh and one more thing. Next month I am releasing a brand new silkscreen print + I will have some sort of open studio some time late november and if you are curious you can sign up to my mailinglist here.
