Days of Laughter
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4 Unique Artist Books in a box, 2018
each book 100 pages
size of box: 38,5 x 29 x 8 cm
cover hand screen printed by the artist

bookbinding by Flodstrands Bokbinderi
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With the help of pencil, graphite, eraser, the paper and the process itself, I’ve been attempting to embody laughter. The act of drawing, erasing and drawing again, has been a way for me to embody the on-going in laughter. It is not about showing the process towards a finished drawing – it is about using the drawing process figuratively. Variations and repetitions are not a search towards a final result, but an attempt to catch laughter transpiring over time.

I wanted to find out if I could – in one and the same piece of art – depict laughter as a process with its own course of duration.

I drew five different laughters on five pieces of paper, each measuring 130 x 100 cm during five weeks while at the same time documenting the drawing process photographically. Every Monday I started on a new laughter and then I drew and erased, drew and erased, drew and erased, for a week – and on Fridays I stopped. Each drawing process resulted in roughly one hundred photos in shifting daylight. The fifth and last drawing turned out as totally uninteresting during its whole process and eventually I finished by covering it up with white paint – to me it didn’t do as a work of art in any way. The four series of photographs became “Days of Laughter I – IV” and exist in the form of projections (animations) and as four unique Artist Books collected in a slip-cover.