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Asterisk
There is no doubt in me: The new, the promising, and the surprising come from the young.
But I am no longer young… It has been a long time since my art moved as it does when one is young. We must go back to a period from 1985 to 1996. It went so fast that I barely had time to show it. I only looked forward…
Now, at 65 summers old and retired from wage labor, I am still here… And this is where the series Asterisk comes into play.
The word asterisk, I have read, originates from Greek and is supposed to mean a little star. It is also what the symbol visually resembles. Asterisk as a symbol: (*)… a six-pointed star.
I especially note two of the symbol’s uses.
Within software and programming, the asterisk symbol is used as a placeholder, a character that can be replaced with a yet-unknown value. A kind of wildcard… I would like to be considered for a wildcard in the world of visual arts… on the shelf for the new, the promising…
Another use of the symbol is when it is used in a text to indicate that there is a footnote. Ending up as a footnote is not the most optimal… because it means that one is written out of the text itself.
Transferring it to the world of art and my work as a visual artist… that is probably my lot: Despite the fact that visual art has been my focal point for almost 40 years, for better or for worse, my experience is not that I am a part of the text. The text that can be written about visual art, Danish visual art in my time.
I am a footnote.
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