DISSECTION

2020 // FOUND POETRY // NYC

I once received the wrong book in the mail—a memoir by a Juilliard-trained opera singer in New York, far from my own life as an autistic artist and architect from rural Denmark. Although it was a mistake, I was drawn to it.

My work often involves rearranging existing matter into new constructions. As a visual thinker with dyslexia, I see words as shapes and process the world in images. I constantly realign external impressions to build inner landscapes.

I took an X-Acto knife and began cutting out words, searching for reflections of my own voice. Like a surgeon, I carved away matter to reveal a new spatial structure—poems formed by absence, by sculpting the page itself. Each page stands as a poem, but layered together they create a three-dimensional reading space, inviting the audience to explore their own path through the book, as if we could scale down and fly through its inner architecture.