OVERFLADER FINDES IKKE, KUN INDHOLDETS YDERSTE STED / There is no such thing as a surface,
only the outermost internals
Paint, metal, glass, plastic and living ferns
2013
The ferns grow, produce oxygen and participate in the carbon cycle - they are obviously alive and dependent on their surroundings; they give and take.
But the paint on the floor seems more like a dead surface, that doesn't move or exchange anything with the surrounding bodies of air, flesh and
concrete. But when I slide my fingers across its surface a bit of me is left there, tiny skin molecules, and they move from one state of being to another.
A transformation that requires no slight of hand yet still seems otherworldly magical, because the basic characteristics that defines these tiny bodies
change in the most dramatical way; we can no longer consider them simply human but must view them in a double perspective: somehow their essence
fluctuate between paint and skin, thing and person.