Gallery Open 画廊开, #foundforest”, Jinze, China

 

 

 

 

 

Opening of my work "Gallery Open 画廊开, #foundforest", made while I was artist in residence at Untitled Space in Jinze, Shanghai, China.  

Autumn Art Fair

 

 

 

 

I have just returned from the annual Autumn Art Fair in the forests. I particularly enjoyed these aspen leaves, which remind me of some of Helen Frankenthaler and Mark Rothko's works. Or perhaps it is the other way round? Nature rocks! Year after year. The entrance is free and so are these works.
PS. Don't ask the name of the artist!
PSPS: More inspiration regarding Autumnal Tints.

Bewildered in the Wilderness

 The Map

The Forest of Kisses

The Entrance

The signpost: "UNscientific research area"

The Thread Trail

 

House of Wild Wood Woman and the two forest attendants

Entrance sticker: "Totally dazed in the plantation"

A forest feast in the alder wood and a chat about our different perceptions of nature

Early spring Wild Wood Woman went east to Rø Plantation, Bornholm, Denmark to host and guide a special trip in collaboration with Danish Nature Agency and NaturBornholm.
Reversing the letters in "Rø", they become "øR", which means bewildered, dazed and confused. The audience was welcomed in the woody VIP lounge by a doormat and two forest attendants handing out entrance stickers.
After a short stroll through The Forest of Kisses the trip continued outside the forest trails following a pink thread for approximately 1½ km. Inspired by Troy labyrinths and the name of Rø the trip went round and round, in and out, up and down, crossing and re-crossing in an attempt to find anOTHER way of perceiving the forest.
Finally House of Wild Wood Woman hosted an end-of-trip celebration in a delightful little alderwood situated in a glade inside a pine forest.
What a plantation! Surely forests ARE made of DREAMS!

World Wide Visitors

 

Like Henry Thoreau and Anne la Bastille I have three chairs in my House of WildWoodWoman, one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

"When visitors came in larger and unexpected numbers there was but the third chair for them all, but they generally economized the room by standing up. It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain" (quoted passage from Walden; or, Life in the Woods ).

In Århus one visitor helped me tune my newly obtained violin, which I bought, because I can NOT play the violin. I tried playing it once, and I got this euphoric feeling you sometimes get, when you walk into unknown land.

 

When I had been out for a while and returned to my cabin, I was often met by signs of visitors, who had enjoyed themselves. Sometimes things were left behind, but except for one visitor, nobody was light-fingered.

I liked that, and I also appreciated all the writings and drawings made by visitors in my guest book.

Many of the visitors gave thanks for the shelter.

You are very welcome!

House of WildWoodWoman went West

House of WildWoodWoman went West to participate in the exhibition Nybyggerne i Ridehuset (The Pioneer Settlers in the Riding House), Århus, Denmark.
And it was indeed surprising how many great visitors such a small house could contain!