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"We are like islands in the sea, separated on the surface but connected in the deep."
This quote from the American thinker William James suggests that we are all inextricably linked to the landscape of nature - a landscape that I explore as a scientist and artist.
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Welcome to Girl in the Tangerine. I am an environmental scientist, but also as an artist I seek to celebrate the landscapes which bridge science with the wider community. In my artwork, I express my passion for science and my emotional connections with the environment. Topography plays the dominant role in this process.
I marvel at landforms – their diversity, infinite shapes, textures and colours. Geological maps are the scientific expression of this natural beauty, expressing the surface and the hidden depths. In my art, I add an abstract dimension to geological maps, collided and re-formed – like the rocks they represent – aimed at guiding the viewer to understand that science is itself a celebration of beauty.
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collections.
Greenlandic Landscapes
Map collages
In 2022, I was fortunate to receive a donation of several printed geological maps from the Geological Survey of Denmark and (GEUS). These maps vividly illustrate the geological diversity of Greenland’s ancient landscapes.
That same year, I returned to West Greenland, where I connected with scientists and artists eager to share their insights on Greenlandic biology, geology, and anthropology, along with their personal stories and experiences of daily life in the region.
The combination of these maps and our discussions serves as the foundation for this project. Each artwork represents a distinct region of Greenland. The geological maps outline the boundaries of these areas, while the collage highlights their narratives.
My aim is to uncover the rich history of the landscape—both human and ancient—through the color, form, and abstraction present in these artworks.
Water Sample
Interactive piece
WATER SAMPLE is an art installation that invites visitors interact with the artwork at my exhibition. Taking a water samples from the box illustrates the disappearance of the Greenland ice sheet due to climate change, which is caused by human intervention in the fragile nature of the Arctic.
Each flask contains water from Greenland's glacial ICE, RIVERS or the OCEAN. A map shows where the samples were taken and provides an overview of the available samples. The QR code on each flask leads to more information about the water cycle in the Arctic and the history of that particular sample.
Organic Terrain
Painting on maps
What do we see when we look at a landscape? Do we see unchanging tableaux? Or do we see a symbiosis, a constant flow – the rhythm between life and lives, and rivers and asphalt, mountains and monuments?
Organic terrain visualizes the topographies we describe through maps, wrapped in tendrils of fungi, knotted in the grain of trees, crowned with threads of hair. We alter our landscapes with roads and buildings that rise and grow, vying for legitimacy. Yet, the background is the forever change brought by heat, tectonics, water and life, which predates us and will follow us – contextualising our impact.
3 x 3 - Human Terrain
Abstract acrylic painting
In the same way that we are part of nature, part of landscape, we are landscapes in ourselves. As such, our bodies are a mirror of the terrain we inhabit. Celebrating nature is an extension of celebrating ourselves, and passion for ourselves is passion for nature.
This collaborative project, EC128 with artist EC and the Girl in the Tangerine participating as her alter ego, ‘128’, uses acrylics to create a body of landscape from a body landscape.
Like a geological map where two dimensions represent three, EC128 uses three dimensions to create two. The audience is invited to unravel the forms which reveal the art pieces. The nine canvases are created as a triptych of triptychs, documenting the passage of time where landscapes evolve but three truths are ever present – form, feeling and change.
Humano Terrarum
Collaboration with mth STUDIOS
The artist explores the concept of how the landscape of our bodies presents a topography mirroring the landscape we inhabit.
By explicitly combining the human body with motifs and images of landscape, Humano Terrarum directly represents the theme of how our landscape shapes us. The model’s body is contoured in ink with her curves acting as a template for digitally represented real-world locations married into the final pieces. The artworks use modified European Space Agency Copernicus Sentinel raster data draped over elevation data from the Polar GeoSpatial Center's ArcticDEM. The final images were created digitally by colourising and merging with still photographs taken of the model.
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