8800 km, 14 Postcards
(Until the Day She Arrives)
2025
Acrylic medium, inkjet print pigment, magnets, steel pipes and hand-bent engraved plexiglass.
14 sets, various sizes, the majority of the works individually measure approx. 10.5 x 15 - 40 x 21 cm.
In the seven years I have lived in Norway, my mother has never visited. We each carry imagined versions of the other's life, fragments built from distance, absence, and memory. So, I proposed we exchange postcards. Each one carries a landscape, a person, or a dish, written from where I am, received from where she is.
These postcards begin with photographs taken on film, fragments of my everyday. I print them digitally on paper, layer paint over the surface, then remove the paper fibres. What remains are dried pigments, transferred ink, and traces of what was washed away and what insisted on staying. These layered images hold the textures of my daily life in Norway, perhaps ones she has never seen.
The exchange began in the spring of 2024, as the snow began to melt. The photographs span the past three years and will continue, until the day she arrives.
There is physical distance. There is temporal distance. There is imagination. And there is longing.
* Part of As the Crow Flies (2025-) is a series of process-based works, adaptable to different contexts with varied selections from the series.
* This work was exhibited at Yáo Alternative Space, Taichung, Taiwan, as part of the group exhibition Candlelight, Postcards, and the West Coast in 2025.
*This exhibition is supported by the Taichung City Government Cultural Affairs Bureau and the Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA).
(Until the Day She Arrives)
2025
Acrylic medium, inkjet print pigment, magnets, steel pipes and hand-bent engraved plexiglass.
14 sets, various sizes, the majority of the works individually measure approx. 10.5 x 15 - 40 x 21 cm.
In the seven years I have lived in Norway, my mother has never visited. We each carry imagined versions of the other's life, fragments built from distance, absence, and memory. So, I proposed we exchange postcards. Each one carries a landscape, a person, or a dish, written from where I am, received from where she is.
These postcards begin with photographs taken on film, fragments of my everyday. I print them digitally on paper, layer paint over the surface, then remove the paper fibres. What remains are dried pigments, transferred ink, and traces of what was washed away and what insisted on staying. These layered images hold the textures of my daily life in Norway, perhaps ones she has never seen.
The exchange began in the spring of 2024, as the snow began to melt. The photographs span the past three years and will continue, until the day she arrives.
There is physical distance. There is temporal distance. There is imagination. And there is longing.
* Part of As the Crow Flies (2025-) is a series of process-based works, adaptable to different contexts with varied selections from the series.
* This work was exhibited at Yáo Alternative Space, Taichung, Taiwan, as part of the group exhibition Candlelight, Postcards, and the West Coast in 2025.
*This exhibition is supported by the Taichung City Government Cultural Affairs Bureau and the Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA).
