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Two weeks in Bodafors (6-20 July) in WARB (Wood Art Residency Bodafors) were rather productive, after all, although I did not invent anything new, really. Perhaps the first experiments with a pine branch (see image above) could count as ‘new’, new for me. They were actually inspired by Helene Lefebvre and Jason Lim. Most of… Continue reading With the Pines in Bodafors

The 13th SAR (Society for Artistic Research) conference took place at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar in Germany, (see conference website). I had the opportunity to contribute with a small workshop titled “Attending to Remarkable and Unremarkable Trees”, documented on a special page on the RC, here, which contains a small video with a pine in the Park… Continue reading In the Park by River Ilm

Reykjavik is a garden city nowadays, with plenty of trees everywhere, or so it seems compared to my memories of my first visit, thirty years ago. This time I stayed at a hotel at the outskirts of the city, near the domestic airport and the wooded hill Öskjuhlid with the landmark building Perlan on top.… Continue reading In Öskjuhlid Wood

Bodafors, a small town or community in southern Sweden, previously known for its furniture industry is surrounded by forests, mainly spruce forests, though. As the proud recipient of the WARB (Wood Art Residency Bodafors) 2022 (see information in Swedish, here), I went down there over an extended weekend for a “reconnaissance trip” before spending more… Continue reading Residency in Bodafors

The exhibition “Revisiting the Pine and other video works” in the Telegraph Gallery on Harakka Island from 24 May to 5th June is divided in two parts, quite literally, by a kind of curtain made from old flyers to an exhibition held in that same space in 2007. In the space to the left there… Continue reading Revisiting the Pine and other video works

A week in Stockholm turned into a weekend due to my visit on Örö Island, but a weekend is better than nothing. It was amazing to see how much further the spring has proceeded here, with some of the spring flowers already gone and the leaves of all trees, except the ash trees, fully grown.… Continue reading Quick visit to Stockholm

A sudden possibility to visit Örö due to a cancellation is something to utilise and I thus decided to visit Örö part of the time I was supposed to be in Stockholm. Quite a lot can be accomplished in less than a week, it seems. I made an experiment to meet or make acquaintance with… Continue reading Some Örö pines

Despite a short break on the first of May, – the Kaivopuisto Park is one of the major carnival sites for the May Day celebrations – I have visited the pine regularly since the end of April until the twelfth of May. I have also recorded a conversation with the reclining pine, on Mothers’ Day,… Continue reading Writing or Talking – Conversation in May

As part of the event Seven of Seven organised by Myymälä2 gallery, (see program) I will perform “Practicing with Pines” on 26. April there. Probably the performance should be called “Practicing with Pines Indoors” or “Practicing with Images of Pines” because I will perform with video compilations, that I have made for the occasion, such… Continue reading Practicing with Pines

Spending Easter with the pines in Stockholm has meant enjoying the spring and visiting the pine in Nobelparken daily (see image above), recording my visits in still images, here (scroll down), and ponderings, here (scroll down). I did visit the pine in Lill-Jansskogen, too, (see image below) and recorded a brief conversation, available as a… Continue reading Easter with Pines

The end of March and beginning of April have provided a veritable ‘cold spell in spring’, the rather boring translation of the Finnish expression ‘takatalvi’ or ‘back winter’, winter suddenly returning. There has been repeated snowfalls and the slopes of Kaivopuisto Park are still covered with ice. When I visited the pine tree for the… Continue reading Cold Spell in Spring

Only one week in Stockholm in March – though what a week, sun every day! During the week I have visited the pine in Nobelparken daily and continued the practice that I began in January and have documented with still images on the RC (here). Additionally I recorded a conversation with the pine in Lill-Jansskogen… Continue reading Spring in the Air