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At arbejde med jordfarver
For many years I have worked with earth, soil, clay, cement and sand directly in my art works, on my body, and in paintings or as components in building up a 3 dimensional form. I have dug holes in the earth and buried myself, I have created the first moulds for my cement forms by digging in the ground. I have cladded wooden structures with kilos of clay so as to fill them up with kilos of fluid concrete. I have always worked directly with my hands in the different materials.
Working with natural ochres is an exciting venture into geoscience and colour explorations. You can never quite know precisely what colours appear at the end of the process. There is a type of laboratory setting with lots of tools and materials that have to be refined and transformed from one state to another.
From working through some very heavy materials in the past I find myself happily grinding and mixing small amounts of pigments and applying them to transparent sheets of paper. The natural ochres combined with other colours form windows of light and reflection into other realms. The light penetrates the sheets and effects the colours depending on the angle in which it falls.
