world-encompassing spiral

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A world-encompassing spiral (2002)

From the 2002 Drawing-biennial, Gallery F-15, Jeløya.





Link to: Installations and performances

The text below accompanied the works in the exhibition:

On my world map, Oslo is the centre. The map is a point-projection, where the globe is wrapped up around one point, - Oslo.

In order to make the map coherent it has to be stretched out, more and more towards the edge. The edge itself is a single point, the antipode (geographically most remote spot) to Oslo, stretched out to a full circle.

A world-encompassing circle is drawn in, a draft of the longest journey a traveller can make on pre-existing tracks without crossing his own path.

The spiral starts at the Oslo central station and evolves along sidewalks, footpaths, roads, motorways, and routes for trains, boats and eventually planes.

A spiral on a globe will first expand, then close in on itself, until the traveller is trapped by his own path. This end point is the world’s most remote place, measured in travel-distance from Oslo. According to my research it is located in Kharagna, a small village in central India.

Kharagna is the centre of the second world map.