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‘WE CRAWLED FROM THE SEA’ 

HULSIG, DENMARK, 2021-




























































































WE CRAWLED FROM THE SEA
        
These photographs are among a a body of work made during the late Summer 2021 in and around Hulsig, a small village situated just south of Skagen, the very Nothern tip of my native Denmark.
   
About 9 months prior, our daughter was born in Los Angeles in the midst of the COVID pandemic and raging wildfires. I still remember the first morning of her life, waking up with her little head on my chest.
There was a window next to the bed through which I could look down onto the deserted streets that lay bathed in the eerie, orange light that dominated the sky. I opened the window and sensed the hot, dense air on my skin as a smell of ash fillled the room.
It felt like the dawn and the end of the world all at once. 
   
It would be another 9 months before we could travel overseas to introduce our little girl to her father’s side of the family. When we finally got there, nothing seemed or felt the same.

It was as if we had turned (back) into little primitive creatures, having just learned to crawl onto shore - or, who knows, still found ourselves at the bottom beneath the immense pressure of water, tumbling on the soft sand while observing life we hadn’t been able to imagine as if we’d been sucked into some kind of consciousness from where all life arise and end.  


All photograhs were made on 35mm black and white film.



FRAMED EXAMPLE

‘FOREST AT TWILIGHT II’

36 1/8” x 50” (42 x 61cm)
Archival pigment print on Baryta
Mounted and framed, walnut with spacer and museum glass (Optium)
Limited edition of 5 + 2 artist proofs
Signed and numbered on the back of print








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