Untold Narratives about Mystical Creatures and Peculiar Habitats 

Denmark is one of the most cultivated countries in the world, and Lumby Strand near Odense is a typical example of Denmark’s intensively cultivated farmland. Helene Søndergaard Jensen uses embroidery to study how the cultivated soil can fundamentally change by acknowledging the magic in the landscape.   

The project studies future scenarios for Lumby Strand as regenerative agriculture, collective land allotment, new hybrid habitats and political initiatives. Thus, the embroidery emerges from tangible ideological and site-specific proposals. The practice revolves around a conviction that a re-enchanted perception of the landscape can lead to a more caring form of agriculture.   

The project weaves the colourful threads of the future into a regenerative vision for the countryside. It invites all the world’s creatures into an imaginative space by conjuring up a future scenario that is perhaps not that far from our own reality.