Skagen

2025
archival print/dibond/white frame
44.8-59 inches, (edition 5 + 2 a.p.)

Skagen lies at the northernmost tip of Denmark, where the North Sea and the Kattegat meet. It is a place of transition, between land and water, between stillness and movement. On the horizon, ships often lie motionless at sea, waiting for permission to continue toward Gothenburg or the Baltic. In that waiting, something of Skagen’s nature seems to be contained, a place where time slows down, where one neither arrives nor departs. The town still breathes the spirit of the light that once drew painters like P.S. Krøyer and Anna Ancher. It is a light that does not dazzle but embraces, a thin skin between day and night in which color dissolves into air. Skagen is northern, yet not cold; it possesses a melancholic clarity that is characteristic of borderlands. Here the landscape becomes a mirror of inner space, the sea an imagined horizon where thoughts gather, like the ships that wait there, as if they too do not know whether they are on their way or already home.