SQUARE SCULPTURE
2018
Square Sculpture came to life during a workshop with artist Henrik Menné. I was fascinated by the idea of setting up a system—or even a machine—that could explore the beauty of randomness. I kept thinking about a large summer meadow, dotted with tiny dandelions popping up in no particular order. It struck me as a perfect example of randomness in nature.
Each dandelion seed has been carried by the wind, perhaps narrowly avoiding being eaten by a bird, landing in the hoofprint of a deer, and receiving just enough rain from a passing cloud—on that one fateful day when the sun broke through. I was mesmerized by this phenomenon, by how much chance and fortune it takes for a plant to exist at all. That train of thought led me to a humbling realization about my own existence—how lucky I am to be here at all.
I then wondered: would I even be able to tell the difference if I observed the placement of dandelions one year and compared it to the next? In my imagination, they’ve all changed positions, yet the overall impression remains strangely familiar.
Square Sculpture became a way to test this principle. By arranging squares along diagonal lines, a seemingly repetitive but organic structure emerged—this was my metaphorical meadow. Within that framework, I began placing the “dandelions.” To simulate randomness, I rolled dice. The innermost cube received a single piece of fabric on one face, determined by the dice. The second cube was covered with two half-pieces of fabric. The third with three one-third segments of canvas, and so on, until the sixth cube. With each step, complexity increased.
The outcome of these experiments culminated in a larger, more monumental version of the sculpture, created in collaboration with Gustav Østerheden for the Roots and Hybrids festival in 2018.