Geometry of Organic

G E O M E T R Y O F O R G A N I C

A life is organic as body or tree, at the same time it has structure and logic as geometry or mathematics. Every known life form begins as a geometrical form, a sphere – the shape of the ovum. Then we become a 4-cell tetrahedron, then 8-cell cube. From two cubes we turn back into a sphere at 32 cells, then we become a 512-cell torus... Earth and its magnetic field is also a torus. There is geometry and structure in small entities such as molecules and in huge such as Universe. We don’t always see these structures, because they are smaller/bigger than eye/mind can comprehend.

Geometry is often serving profane functional purposes – in precise technical drawings, maps and schemes. On the other hand, geometry is also being thought of as something containing sacred knowledge, full of awe, mystery, and unknown. It speaks both to rational and sensual in us.

In this project I explore connections of organic and structured, straight and soft, spontaneous and planned, earthly and magical. I'm looking into people’s relations with each other, home, nature, themselves: connections within the “inland empire”, with the other beings and the world. Simple happenings are seen as rituals, sacred acts. A handshake, a swim, a look at the sky, a walk in the forest, a memory from childhood, an embrace with beloved. How can a feeling be visualized, crystallized and brought into observable shape? How can one draw a deep breath or a mutual heartbeat? How do our experiences create crystals inside our chest and expand it into the open?

Vesica Piscis/
graphite on paper, 30x42 cm

studies of human anatomy
graphite on paper, 30x42 cm

installation views, Umeå Konsthall

I
two galaxies
on one longitude

II
converge
penetrate
interweave
consolidate

III
wiry fingers
gently move apart
warm branches of marble ribs
reaching to the flesh of heartbeats

IV
open
naked
and vulnerable
they black out the silence
reverberating in the ground
as whispers of ancient spells

V
all the mountains fall
all the waterfalls surrender
and the red drowns in the blue
becoming absolute

ABSOLUTE
graphite, chalk and acrylic on canvas, 150x100 cm
*

dry-point print
42x30 cm
*

whatever it is - swim about it
wherever you are - we swim in one water

...

for better, for worse - sea, swallow me

...

over here
sun never
falls asleep
but water
is still cold

in this coldness
we search for openings
of Golfstream
to rest our bodies
in these warm wombs
wishing
we could stay here
forever

N
W x E
S

SWIM ABOUT IT
graphite, chalk and acrylic on canvas, 150x100 cm
*

(...)

it flows into the open
throughout the ribs

wakes up the birds
and makes them float disorderly
in a perfect composure

(...)

PERFECT DISORDER
graphite, chalk and acrylic on canvas, 150x100 cm
*

dry-point prints
17x25 cm*

LETTING IN
graphite, chalk and acrylic on canvas, 150x100 cm
*

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O

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/\ O [ ]
graphite, chalk and acrylic on canvas, 150x100 cm
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through the darkness
we sail under the water skin
with footworn sun

we keep the warmth
until it's time
to grow red
again

☉
солнце
sol
sun
soleil