CHALK - Site of memory in the Anthropocene

The chalk layer model investigates the relationship between the immense forces of geological nature, erosion The controlled and the uncontrolled and the relationship between industry and nature.

Exploring the different chalk landscapes all over Denmark. I used my own body, my senses and presence on site to experience and understand the landscape. I am an actor who acts with my body. I put it into the frame of the camera to convey information, a feeling or memory on this stage.

The toolbox is the size of a suitcase and its contents are well organized. The Toolbox functioned as a documentation instrument, and the raw material collected from the selected sites is organized and processed for the Toolbox.

These drawings investigate the spatial and interconnected processes of the raw material that act as fragments in the fictive memory space of the limestone quarry of Karlstrup 25 km South of Copenhagen. Memories consist of loose fragments. All these fragments grow together and become, by means of the imagination, a one unified narrative. But this story is of course full of errors because we never remember things exactly as they happened. And it is good, for one of the most important functions of our brain is to predict and plan our future so that we have the greatest possible of success with our endeavours. Two people will also never experience the same place in the same way. They will filter the place through their own experiences and memories. Memories that build on their own understanding of themselves, where they are, and what made them be there. We never experience the world without prejudice.

The archive is the cumulative body of raw material gathered on all the expeditions. It's carefully curated, numbered. The time and date registered and put into a system for further investigation.