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is about the beauty and strength of the human body. They are detailed shots of bodies that appear like a landscape due to their isolation. Concentrating on the individual parts of the body in this way has an alienating effect and there are also fewer judgments as to who these parts belong to. They are self-contained and stand for the separation of labeling and judgement. By depicting less 'perfect' body shapes, it is visualized that beauty does not have to be equated with perfection or identification.

BODY II

Mechanism for Combining eye movement with mouth movement to express a scream

#800-Scream Mechanism

This work was originally inspired by the collaboration between Gerhard Richter and composer Steve Reich's “Patterns”. In this particular work, the painter's image is continually deconstructed until it reaches a state of the sublime. In a similar manner after creating and translating a series of interviews into data fields, I set about to create a sequence of further deconstruction and spatial abstraction. By utilising a series of digital cameras in space and imbuing the environment with a sense of speed I arrived at this point. Data points accelerated moving in micro space expanded into vistas of colour volumes.

Liminal beings are those that cannot easily be placed into a single category of existence. Liminal beings are naturally ambiguous, challenging the cultural networks of social classification. The work evolution of data-based personas which been further abstracted into soft light colour fields. The movement and colour echoing what they once were, now dissolved into amorphous fields of colour and light.

In anthropology, liminality, meaning "a threshold" is the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of a rite of passage when participants no longer hold their pre-ritual status but have not yet begun the transition to the status they will hold when the rite is complete. During a rite's liminal stage, participants "stand at the threshold” between their previous way of structuring their identity, time, or community, and a new way, in which completing the rite establishes.

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Liminal Beings 01

With the photography project "What nature knows", Rognli draws in references from his affiliation with Arctic Northern Norway, to light, darkness and the seasons. He transforms ordinary landscapes into an enigmatic place to be and takes us on a visual experience in the evening and the atmosphere of the night. In the project he immerses light installations in water, and creates harmony where there is conflict between the elements. He illuminates nature with LED-light and luminescent material.

What nature knows 

100x100cm oil, acrylic and latex house paint on canvas 2021

The message

From the Spatial Drift Series, exploring external and internal spaces activated by the shaped  spatial artwork. 

Spatial Drift No.7

Delicatessen 

Holes in my abyss

Pearl farming industry in Omura Bay, Nagasaki Prefecture. In order to stabilize its value and distribute as a uniform industrial product, pearls have been bleached, its sphere polished, and measured in size to determine its rank during the distribution process. However, a pearl is actually the opposite of being uniform; Each is a gift of life born from a mother shell, the Akoya shellfish. The beauty in its uniqueness is similar to that of individual people. It truly embodies the beauty of diversity and individuality. That is, if it derives from natural diversity, instead of industrial uniformity, when brought into society. Within a single atmosphere, this exhibition aims to create time that has not been used during this history.

Soft light falls in an atmosphere that is loosely separated from the outside world by organdy.
The atmosphere portrays a mother’s womb; In it dwells air, presence, sounds, and life, all holding its independent values.

The single thread that supports the weight of a pearl expresses the time axis of the life of each pearl. Each thread sways in the natural breeze of its atmosphere and interacts with each other’s lives, just like the life of us humans.

Nameless Portrait

The scrap metal collection depot hosted huge piles of mixed metal parts. On one side the twisted rebar lay in tangled balls playfully rolled up with the deft movements of a huge claw controlled by our friend sitting in the crane cabin. Upon an unsorted nest of scrap was an old exhaust pipe looking out of place. The millions of cars which clog the roads in this vast city of 20 million eventually find their way to places like this awaiting reincarnation.

Watercolour

mixed media collage part of a sketchbook series titled “Confessional (Teen Journal II)”

Perceive Me 

Girls night

acrylic on canvas
72in x 54in 1.5in
2021

Chimera

Water of Seven Seas

Installation based off my drawings and prints - a three dimensional world

"I sacrifice my hands for these moments in time" 

rose

Handmade Collage, black embroidery with a mysterious door on A3 fine art paper. (See the video linked to see the whole artwork)

RAFAELA01

Fuscia Lines

Cubist piano and pianist playing by night with an open window showing the city skyline

Citylights

Originally Burning Man 2019, currently in private collation.

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