This small exhibition took place at Rektor’s Lysthus (the headmasters folly), a quirky little building placed in a corner of a formal garden at the very centre of Viborg. Locally it is a much-liked little park, known as Latiner haven (the garden belonging to the Latin school). It once adjoined a grammar school, as you might guess while to the other side it still is linked to the cobbled grounds of the city’s towering cathedral.

My exhibition was the final outcome of a residency at Viborg Kunsthal, the city’s contemporary art venue and took place in early spring 2016. Although it was scheduled for a brief run of just ten days, it ended up lingering on considerably longer. As an exhibition, my project came about thanks to the support of some local residents, not least the council’s head gardener.

The three pieces I produced, all from timber and white stained plywood, came about through a study of the landscape surrounding the city: its waterlogged stubble fields, the large open gravel pits and the mussel banks I was lucky enough to explore on a late afternoons visit to Løgstør, a small town set on the shore of Limfjorden. The images I took on that day, together with other photographic notes I made in preparation for the work that eventually became the outcome of my stay, have been placed together at the very end of my string of pictures.

Thinking back I believe it was my hope, that seen tightly together in an enclosed space, like the one in Rektor’s Lysthus the three white stained pieces would form an ensemble, gentle enough to let each of them gain their own individual voice yet be robust enough to strike up a confident conversation with the adjacent surroundings.