They came, they flew – installation (2011)

A flock of birds.

They came, they flew – 2011

The installation opened on Friday June 3rd at 4pm with German composer and musician Regine Brunke performing her music piece: Hinter den Farben der Woeken /Behind the colours of the clouds (2008) for viola cello & verrophone (glass tube-instrument) which was a perfect match.

Regine Brunke with her viola cello.

The installation was inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's movie The Birds (1963) and contained 204 hand-cut and stitched birds, of the three common breeds to the area for this particular time of year: Colóeus monédula (Jackdaw), árus ridibúndus (Black-headed Gull) and the Délichon úrbica (Common House Martin).
After 4pm that day any visitor to the 3rd floor of the tower was invited to cut down a bird and set it free where ever they pleased (i.e. bringing it home with them).

Snip, snip.

Birds taken off.

They came, they flew.

The installation finished on June 26th, 2011 at 5pm.
Below the tower at Limfjordscentret Doverodde, Denmark where the birds were being kept.

The Tower, Limfjordcentret Doverodde, Denmark.

A lonely bird left.

They came, they flew – on local tv (2011)

The opening of Doverodde Book Arts Festival 2011 and the official opening of my installation: They came, they flew – 204 hand-cut birds inspired by the Hitchcock movie The Birds from 1963.
Made onto the local TV station: tv midt/vest found her

Installations (2002 & 2006)

Flyv'Fisk / Flying Fish – entrances, Kirsten Kjærs Museum, DK 2002

Flyv'Fisk / Flying Fish
To read a book is an adventure into another universe.
To go on an adventure, most often involves a plane or ship.
A flying fish is capable of moving above the surface of the water. Bird or Fish?
In 2002 I created a book-installation in Denmark, 'Flyv'Fisk/'Flying Fish' a man-sized book with pages you could walk through or between.

Kirsten Kjærs Museum, Frøstrup, Denmark 23rd March-24th April 2002.
Hand-cut in corrugated card
Sponsor: KAPPA packaging, DK 

Cogs – a Book in the Machine, 2006

Cogs – a Book in the Machine
Our commonplace communication tools today are all based on digital codes of ones and zeroes connected to transmitted information. Cogs are toothed wheels that link to other toothed mechanisms, changing speed or direction of transmitted motion. They remain a symbol of the Industrial Revolution, the beginning of our fast developing world. Today we make reference to a man as; “a cog in the machine”, but we can all be seen as cogs in the machine of our society.

With this in mind I have conceived "Cog Books".
With my previous work I have been investigating elements of robotics and technology, always with the irony in mind that the pieces themselves and the means of their production could not be further from the technology that inspires them. I use organic materials like paper and traditional bookbinding techniques which have been used for centuries and create my illustrations with a simple knife. The cog books will further embody the irony, natural materials shaped to reflect technologies.

An installation of 11 cog books, 3 of which have been displayed at the artists' book exhibition;
'BookBlast', Lönnström Art Museum, Rauma, Finland 10.06-24.09.2006
http://www.lonnstromintaidemuseo.fi/kirjahduksia

Cogs – a Book in the Machine, LCC – UAL, London, UK 2006

The remaining 8 were later displayed at the London College of Communication, School of Graphic Design, staff exhibition: 'Research in Progress: Selected Works from the School of Graphic Design', Eckersley and Lower Street Galleries, London, UK, 6-18 November 2006. (Image above.) 

Image courtesy of the Art Department Gallery, Eastern Michigan University, 2010.

In 2010 all 11 cogs where selected to be part of the American exhibition: Open Book – an International Survey of Experimental Books at the Art Department Gallery, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA.
April 5 – June 15 2010.