BOOKS




TWO GARDENS (2011-2015)
a love story that almost makes sense 



The work is in the form of an unfinished story or a story to be continued. It is about lost and forgoton things that become remembered by remembering them from a place in the back of the mind where a moment of love has come to rest. The story is about the hidden and unfilled wishes of two people, one who was waiting on another and one who was to shy and waited. In the story, people speak of the imaginary gardens of Ms Smile, who speaks so much of them that they becom real to all those who listen and this because they are so often spoken about that reality would vanish if they were suddenly no longer a subject in Smileville, the small town where the story takes and which is run by the the Mayor Peter Flowers. It is a love story illustrated by a series of landscape paintings by the artists Leonard Bullock and it is a love story that begins in the imagination and blooms into reality as emotional gardens are shared and love flowers.



THIS IS SOMETHING FOR ME  
a performative book as an emotional landscape




This is a book that needs to be read like a piece of music is played. The reader is therefore a „performer“ and the method in which the book is read is the performer’s „interpretation“ of it. Instructions tell the performer always to regard the “now”, to always remain calm and silent, to let each turn page be felt as an affecting movement of the body, and to see the changes in colour in the book as changes in light in the room. For those who perform the book, it becomes self.evident to them that we are the landscapes we live in and that there is an emotional tie between us that is at every moment there, when we are asleep or when we are awake, when the weather changes or when it does not, when earthquakes shake us, or when volcanoes find eruption.