Photo of the Inner Geographies pamphlet, showing the opening poem of the essay. The photo is a close up at a slight angle, the page is gray on a white background.
INNER GEOGRAPHIES
2013 - //
Inner Geographies explores how we rebuild the city inside us every time we're passing through it. We built an internal map of the city that we keep updating. Whenever I’m moving through the city, the city moves through me and in that exchange, we recreate each other.
The publication consists of three distinct parts: 1) Two pamphlets: an essay Inner Geographies & a collection of poems To The Cities, 2) The Aarhus Drawing: a hand-drawn map, 3) Invisible Cities: Eight multiple exposure 35mm color photographs.
The city is the other part of me / we complete each other. Each of the individual works investigates this relationship. The essay is a meandering creative writing piece moving between the interior and exterior of both myself and the city, an abbreviated version of the essay was first published in On Site Review 33. Trying to grasp how we are in relation with each other in movement. The poems are a love letter to the cities.
The Aarhus Drawing is drawn by hand entirely from memory. I was interested in what the city of Aarhus looked like in my mind. I sat at my desk in Copenhagen upon returning from living and studying for 2.5 years in Aarhus and drew the plan of the city completely from memory. Reinhabiting the city in my memory informed the drawing which had to be quite large to hold the details. The final drawing is approx. 3.5m x 5.5m fitted onto 48 A2 sheets of paper. For more see: The Aarhus Drawing.
Invisible Cities started as an experiment of building a photograph directly onto the 35mm film inside the camera, that would more closely represent how I perceived the city. Years after I started this project I learned that I’m autistic, and can now see how this was always an expression of my Autistic Perception. For more see: Invisible Cities.
A closed artist's book on a gray background
The artist’s book opened, revealing two hand-sewn paper pamphlets on the right and another cardboard interior fold on the left.
The artist’s book fully opened to show all three sections. On the left a folded up map with the title “The Aarhus Drawing” on the front. In the center a multiple exposed photograh. On the right two hand-sewn paper pamphlets.
The artist’s book fully opened and all individual elements are shown separately above the book casing. On the left the unfolded map titled The Aarhus Drawing. In the center eight 4x6 inch photographs showing different cityscapes from the photo series Invisible Cities. On the right the two paper pamphlets, one black named Inner Geographies and one beige named To The Cities.
Inner Geographies Essay spread from the pamphlet. The photo is at an angle, the pages gray on a white background.
Photo of To The Cities poetry pamphlet. The cover is beige with the title printed in black outline, the background is white.
Photo of a spread from To The Cities pamphlet. One part of a poem is visible on the near page: it’s a reflection of me / as I am of it / the city / exists in me as I in it.
The Aarhus Drawing, a digital copy of a hand-drawn map, pencil and brushed on black dry pigment on white paper, of the city of Aarhus in plan.
From Invisible Cities: A multiple exposure photograph overlapping distinct views of New York City onto itself. From the center of the image moving outwards to the right and up is Queensboro Bridge, the underside of the bridge looks like it has been changed from metal framing to concrete, but this reveals itself to be the cornice of DC 37 Health Center on Chambers Street bet. Church & W.Broadway.
From Invisible Cities: A multiple exposure photograph overlapping distinct views of the village of Toftlund, DK, onto itself. The composition is primarily brick villas and muted in color with one red house standing out in the center-right.
From Invisible Cities: A multiple exposure photograph overlapping distinct views of Medellín, Col., onto itself. The terracoate infilled concrete frame multiple story structures renders the image in redly earth tones.
From Invisible Cities: A multiple exposure photograph overlapping distinct views of Aarhus, DK, onto itself. The composition seems almost overlaid with a grid of dark windows, giving an opening to read the individual buildings.
From Invisible Cities: A multiple exposure photograph overlapping distinct views of Mexico City, onto itself. The composition has a pink shine to it from some of the colorful facades. There’s a mixture of traditional buildings and post modern glass high rises.
From Invisible Cities: A multiple exposure photograph overlapping distinct views of Copenhagen, onto itself. The composition moves towards the front and center, to a dense point not unlike the bow of a ship. The colors are muted as is typical for danish design.
From Invisible Cities: A multiple exposure photograph overlapping distinct views of Albany, NY, onto itself. The composition is dominated by blank wall facades and boarded-up windows are seen in the background. At the bottom OUT can be read in large white letters. The colors a primarily tones of brown and beige.
From Invisible Cities: A multiple exposure photograph overlapping distinct views of Venice, onto itself. The composition is dominated by vertical lines and a great mixture of scales overlapping. In the lower right corner the San Marco Campanile is visible. The rest of the buildings have a residential feel to them.