Firewood bags with leftover materials
Bound Form (2025) is a series of seven pine sculptures, installed to create a shadow play on the walls. The works are currently shown in the exhibition Lorck Schive Art Prize 2025 at Trondheim Kunstmuseum, introduced by an anecdote that has stayed with me through the process of making these sculptures:
But you’re an artist, my doctor said. Couldn’t you process your emotions through your art?
No, period, I said.
Yet, the question lingered in my mind. What does it mean to process emotions through art, and what forms might this take? Therapeutic storytelling, solace and catharsis through free form? Or is it more a matter of working your way through it? Shaping, lifting, carrying, learning, measuring, cutting, milling, thinking, screwing, sweating, constructing, constructing, constructing.
The sculptures are created based on contours traced from photographs of people, animals and places that I love. Viewed from certain angles, these shapes appear in the sculptures and the shadows they cast, from other angles they dissolve. The leftover materials are cut into firewood and become a bonfire to gather around outside the museum.
Production:
The sculptures are made in collaboration with Arne Skaug Olsen (woodwork), Soheil Hivad Nabi (3D-modelling and CNC), and Cameron MacLeod (planning), at Aldea, Bergen
Production support:
Lorck Schive Art Prize
