Exploration of a Swing in a Polarised Landscape

Abstract

Exploration of a Swing in a Polarised Landscape is based on reflecting our contemporary relation to the forest and forestry. An interactive swing, consisting of a log replicated in metal, embodies the play of childhood, timber tongs depict the small scale to the big scale forest industries, but also the development from a forestry by hand towards today's forest machines. The bark, grey, raw, organic. The wood, the internal, coloured in gold, the essence of the industry. With a tone of poeticness, the work discusses and explores how an artwork can be a narrator within the concept and context and investigates questions as, what attributes could an artwork have to potentially create a platform for discussion? How can associations within an artwork work as a tool of communication to the forest industry? The purpose of the work is to create a space for reflection and discussion through an installation, where the focus is on questions regarding our forests. Where is the balance between the use of nature as an industrial resource? What does forests mean to us as individuals, and as a collective?