Year:
2012
Dimensions:
45x45x120cm
Materials:
Paint, Insects, Aluminum
Description:
On June 2nd, 2012 I embarked on a
1200 km long walk from my studio in Sweden to an
exhibition space in northern Norway. On the 48 day long
walk, I brought a specially built museum podium that
was coated in white paint. Every morning during the walk I painted the podium
anew with a coat of white linseed-oil paint; this sticky
paint attracted insects and dirt that eventually
became stuck in it. On the following day the dirt and the insects were
embedded in the surface with the new application of
paint.
When I reached my goal on July 19th, the podium
had 48 coats of paint. Each coat contains a variety of
botanical and entomological data.
The project was shown at the Exhibition Odor Water Limo 4th August, 2012.
www.owl.tf
Please click on this image above to go to the documentation site for Lost and Found. There you can see a lot of images and a VIDEO from the walk.
