{"id":3497,"date":"2025-03-12T18:30:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T17:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.torunnskjelland.com\/public-commisions\/images-from-a-floating-world-kolvikbakken-lower-secondary-school-alesund\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T15:33:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T13:33:44","slug":"images-from-a-floating-world-kolvikbakken-lower-secondary-school-alesund","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.torunnskjelland.com\/en\/public-commisions\/images-from-a-floating-world-kolvikbakken-lower-secondary-school-alesund\/","title":{"rendered":"Images from a Floating World, Kolvikbakken Lower Secondary School, \u00c5lesund"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Public Artwork at Kolvikbakken Lower Secondary School, 2022<\/strong>
Wall painting and laser-cut MDF forms
In collaboration with Vigdis Fjellheim<\/p>\n

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Installed across two library walls, this mural functions as a scenic tableau composed of multiple visual layers. Foreground, background, and sightlines intersect to create a sense of spatial depth and narrative flow. The feature wall is dense and intricate, while the longer wall offers a lighter, airier expression. Together, they create an organic, enveloping visual environment where movement and stillness coexist. <\/p>\n

At the center of the work is the iris flower, referencing the Art Nouveau artist Eug\u00e8ne Grasset. The Art Nouveau style, known in Norway as Jugendstil, serves both as aesthetic inspiration and thematic metaphor. The city of \u00c5lesund, rebuilt after the 1904 fire in Jugendstil architecture, provides historical context\u2014while the term Jugend <\/em>(youth) resonates with the energy and spirit of a school environment. <\/p>\n

The remaining forms are variations on the motif of books\u2014floating, flying, and stacked\u2014rendered in shades of blue and white. These silhouettes create an abstracted, landscape-like composition where thoughts and ideas drift freely, undefined yet charged with meaning. On these visual “vessels” sit familiar figures from literature and art history: Don Quixote, Nancy Drew, Tolkien\u2019s mythical creatures<\/em>, Caspar David Friedrich\u2019s Wanderer<\/em>, Askeladden from Soria Moria<\/em>, and the comic heroine Modesty Blaise. <\/p>\n

The visual language of these figures draws on Ukiyo-e<\/em>, a Japanese art movement that also influenced Art Nouveau. The work\u2019s title, Images from a Floating World<\/em>, is a direct translation of Ukiyo-e<\/em>\u2014a poetic nod to the fluid and transformative nature of knowledge, imagination, and youth. <\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3347,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3497","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.torunnskjelland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.torunnskjelland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.torunnskjelland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.torunnskjelland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.torunnskjelland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.torunnskjelland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3530,"href":"https:\/\/www.torunnskjelland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3497\/revisions\/3530"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.torunnskjelland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.torunnskjelland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}