Amalie Rugård Jensen
Oslo, Norway
I work with lithography, drawing, text, photomechanical processes, and wooden objects to explore subjects related to ecology, poetry, and speculative narratives. I am interested in how fragments and collections can carry a story without giving away everything. The content of my publishing practice, which consists of zines, booklets and one-of artist books, is often based on the ideas presented in the text the Author of the Acacia Seeds by Ursula Le Guin. My work is inspired by natural history collections, expeditions into the unknown, obscure sciences and is an attempt to understand and explain all that is shimmering and strange in this world.
Publications
Bregnernes Ankomst (2021)
An artist book presenting the fictional poetry of the ferns of Nordmarka in drawing and text, using lithography, watercolour, ink and more.
Frossent Land (2021)
A zine of the fictional journal of polar critique, containing text and photographic images dealing with the arctic - including a story of a lost expedition to Svalbard in 1911. Inkjet and lithography
dammen, jeg, granerne (2024)
A zine containing a series of monologues from the beings of the forest (the pond, the fir trees, the ferns), and photographic images, both my own and sourced from norwegian botanist Hanna Resvoll-Holmsen.
Inkjet.
Skogen (2024)
This booklet is a composition of drawings and photographs from the forest of Nordmarka, colorful and mysterious. Inkjet and letterpress printing
