DITTE EJLERSKOV
For several years now I have been in the process of cleansing my practice from external inspiration such as mainstream culture, politics, general negativity, fear and expectation related input.
Recently my work has therefore been focused around the more formal aspects inside my practice, represented here by a series of large-format hand-painted colour gradients. These works pose as healing and slightly vibrating - as chromotherapy if you will. Chromotherapy’s effects were discussed as early as in 1025 in the “Persian Canon of Medicine”, and methodologically consist of the use of light in the form of color to balance the lacking energy in a person’s body - on physical, emotional, spiritual and mental levels. In my practice these days this claim is an ongoing investigation.
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The Scene 01
Inspired by the sentiment of Renaissance painter Fra Angelico, and specifically the drawings by same-era-architect Vredeman de Vries, here is the scene for the epitomes Oxytocin and Adrenaline.
Oxytocin is released during hugs, sex, and especially after childbirth. Adrenaline releases with the intention to save us from danger.
The Prudent Crop 021
Keep this images in your phone. Keep this token close to you. Let your awareness of this battle change your blood, so that your blood works for you and not against you.
In another time, or very much elsewhere, there was a sculpture. It was made by a woman, so therefore it depicts women. Its main intend is to ask you to look inwards and to learn to lean into love. Frozen in time, these women represent hormones fighting within the human body. Oxytocin and adrenaline. For women, oxytocin (the love hormone) is released during hugs, sex, and especially after childbirth. The opposing hormone could be adrenaline - the intense fight or flight hormone, released with intention to save us in a stressful situation. The sculpture wants to tell you, that opposing hormones cannot be present in the human bloodstream at the same time. It is one or the other. It is an unbroken battle. One has to win. In your life, which one do you feed? Which one do you let control your reality? The creator’s personal struggles with this – and therefore aim with this work – is to view the scenario of this fight from all possible angles, in order to learn the game of the bloodstream. Hopefully these images become tokens for life-changing behaviour-shifts for many individuals.