ACQUA 4EVER/ EVIGHEDEN

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~ Sculpture No. 20 by Signe Emdal

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~ Created in August 2024, at Artist residency: San Cataldo in Scala, Italy

~ Part of the PAD London 2024 show, with Galerie Maria Wettergren, October 2024. More info, follow this link

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About Acqua 4ever/Evigheden ( words by Signe Emdal ):

A place I call 4ever

My new Land of Love

A moment without timelines

A merge with water & skies

A never ending horizon

This must be the source of all life

Acqua

Evigheden

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Acqua 4ever/ Evigheden was created during my August 2024 residency in Scala- Italy in a medieval nunnery, high above sea level on a mountain top.

Burning sunshine, lizards everywhere, palmtree´s and dusty shades of earthy tunes. With every minute, the horizon disappeared or became visible, and would then sit really high up in a sort of sky-level. A Sky/Ocean merge,- an optical illusion?

It didn’t feel like an illusion, it felt very real. Everybody in the group felt it. We had our feet on old ground, old stones from the mountain.

Evigheden is the Danish word for Never-ending, or Eternity.

I love the sound of this word in Danish: Evigheden. It sounds precisely as the actual meaning of the word: Soft, welcoming, watery, kind. A place you can rely on. A place to rest your busy human feet.

We visited Pompeii. A dusty, friendly, mysterious and full of life place. One million turists. Also a big pile of ruins and a graveyard? –A lively one. I love how the ruins activate peoples imagination.

We hiked up and down the medieval steep staircases to get to our home on the top. I felt like walking on staircases to heaven, with musical sounds, rytmns and weird smells, merging us with the wavy mountain lines.

A postcard with a magnificient green/skincoloured painting made in Ravello, 1890 by Marie Krøyer. My studio view in Scala was directly towards Ravello. My view and the painting was a match. I thought a lot about Marie. She really painted a great portrait of the incredible light here at Amalfi. The colours, the atmosphere,- just spot on Marie! Lots of love to you.

Lemons everywhere. We named the landscape: Limoni Eterni – Den Evige Citron.

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