Monolithography

Monolithography is an ode to the traces of time, performed on a bicycle ride around the Danish island of Bornholm. The film catalogues ancient monuments as nodes from the past; commas in the language of a landscape and a voyage in perpetual motion.

On the island, rock monuments stand in the landscape as quotations from the past, filled with words without a clear etymology, as parts of our present imbued with multiple layers of meaning projected backward and forward in time; their authors unknown, date approximate.
Today, they remain mounted in the land as small permanent marks on a larger history, yet: the spiritual, cultural, historical and cartographical knowledge as well as the intention within them continues to be obscured by the present landscape of knowledge, meaning and identity.

Monolithography, is the seventh stanza of eight within the lager body of work, Man from Iota.

Man from Iota
As a body of work, Man from Iota investigates the correspondence of time and the instance of man’s existence in it, the desire for the unattainable freedom of flight within this instance, while being tethered to the rock of time and history, his own doing within it and his desire for quantifiable knowledge about something other within nature.

– Between the roar and the rock
– Passerine in Time
– Declination in Time
– Declination of Passerine
– Beyond the farthest plane
– 54 species on an island, on the first day of the year
– Monolithography
– Epilogue “TSA”