ABOUT VISUAL ART

As for my visual art projects the material or certain objects often come first. It somehow finds me and keeps insisting until I cannot ignore it anymore. Then the topic sneaks in. At first it is personal then it expands and suddenly I am deep into the study of alchemy, the human attempt to fly or something else. I make several experiments and I need to let the work rest for some time before I return to it.

Each art project involves different media, and often several elements are repeated or varied in different art forms. A visual art project sometimes begins because I want to make a video for a sound and poetry track. Perhaps it is all just one big project that grows and changes as time goes by. Perhaps everything I do is one long poem.

Dreams of Life, a box with old photographs.

Dreams of Life

ZINE AND ARTIST BOOKS

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FILM - VIDEO

My film and videos are connected to the same principles as collage art. I do montage where space and time and investigations are sequenced like a collage. My film represent poetry on the move.

PHOTO

To discover the world through the camera means to focus on magic details which surround us everywhere. I try my best to make the right photo on the spot to leave post editing at a minimum.

PAINTINGS AND COLLAGE

The making of collages as an artform involves the deconstruction of images or other items and the use of the deconstructed fragments to reconstruct a new image. A process much aligned with cut up - and blackout poetry and with interdisciplinary art practice in general. To combine fragments is perhaps what I am always doing.

Abstract collage by Asta D.