People come by to talk. They see me walking back and forth. They read the text on the signpost and I say Hello. Today a retired construction worker and his wife said people should play and have more fun. I reckon they considered my work as play. Good! They walked the trail with me. A woman with two small girls came by and the girls walked the line back and forth many times. After a while they started to make somersaults along the trail. They were very busy and energetic. The mother said the trail reminds her of a mandala...
Ways of walking People ask me, How do you walk? Maybe a strange question, a simple answer would be that I just walk. But that isn’t entirely true. It is a good question. I realize that I walk in several different ways or modes. The aim is to make marks by walking. I walk naturally with a gap between my feet of approximately 10 centimeters. That makes a trail which is about 26-32 centimeters wide. This is the general mode I use when I walk. But I also want to make parts of the trail narrower. Then I walk with...
I am on a patch of grass in a residential area in Löddeköpinge, Sweden. I walk. A passing man in his prime says the following: ”I have lived here in Löddeköpinge all my life. On this patch of grass, nothing has ever happened”. The man is right, nothing is happening here. Or? Maybe he’s wrong after all, because there’s a lot going on here. He came by with his dog, for example. It may not be world news that unfolds here, but there are plenty of small everyday events. Children play on the playground. Pupils are heard from the nearby...
A site-specific installation by Bjørn Wangen. I draw by walking until a path is formed, i.e. a stroke or line. That’s what a drawing artist do, draws lines. The route forms a long winding track. The curve is based on the mean temperature at the site, on a weekly basis from January 2023 and on. I will extend the length of the trail each week until the end of the exhibition period in November 2023. After that, the trail will slowly disappear. The work can be hard to see at a distance. Follow this map on Google and you’ll find...