Friction - Graduation show 2006 The Jutland Art Academy

I want to describe the near and the ordinary. The things you do not notice, but which are the basis for your ability to be interested in everything else. It is recogned as less important -in relation to wars and catastrophes. But big historical events er important because they change the basic conditions for a lot of people.

I collect the motifs where I am - or where I am going anyway. I feel like travelling. I want to see with my own eyes what the world looks like. I don't believe I know the world because I watch tv and read the newspaper. And I like to walk. The slow tempo and the physical way of experiencing space and distances, suits my interest in the world as something concrete and material and it suits the close-up view I use in my works.

”Platform 6 Copenhagen Central Station (10:1)” represents a cut-out of the floor of this platform, enlarged 10 times. It works like a map, describing a part of the world in a certain scale. The picture is bigger than the area it represents, whereas most maps are smaller than the area they represent. Maps always choose to represent some thing in stead of others and in this way they show what is important.

To make a big and monumental oil-painting is also a way to claim that these unrecognized parts of the world are important. The painting represents the floor, the actual base in everyday space, and it also is actual painting; a surface of paint on a canvas as a physical thing. At the same time it is simplified and detailed, it represents something and it is an object in itself. It has a personal starting point and describes a common, ordinary thing.