The Birch Tree Forest & The Man With the Tiger Tattooed on His Back (Gesture of Balance)
2010
Video installation in two individual parts
8 mm film transferred to DVD/
Stop-motion animation on DVD
Stills
The work features a man that came from a life in Thailand to start a life Sweden.
A migration to for him an unknown place. As many do - by choice or by force.
He now has to create an everyday reality in which he can belong. Sometimes he thinks he sees a pattern resembling something he knows, a sensation that it is all the same, that it is all connected. The pattern of the birch trees in the forest in which he chops fire wood, the pattern on the wings of an owl, the pattern of the tiger tattooed on his back, once made there to stay by monks to protect him from his surroundings and to protect him from himself. The patterns merge together. The present. The past. Mirroring in the lake in front of him, and then dissolves like a hologram when a stone breaks the surface.
Installation sketches
5 channel installation
Part 1. 8 mm film projected on 4 screens
Part 2. Stop motion animation projected on a rear projection screen hanging free inside the space build from the larger screens.
