How can we find hope in an ever-changing world marred by natural decline and climate crisis? How to discover things that allow us to recognise ourselves in nature, which perhaps leads us to experience more empathy with other beings, thereby treating them better?

The shapes of a small tuft of lichen growing on a tree stump got Morild thinking about how humans have always come together for things like prayer, conversation or rebellion.

This kinship between two so profoundly different living beings became the starting point for an artistic exploration. In her work with the paintings for this exhibition, she has also drawn inspiration from stave church portals, where humans, animals and plants are woven together in intricate and inextricable patterns. In these motifs, nature plays the main part, with tiny life forms taking on human proportions. In many ways, the exhibition is a kind of conversation with nature, where it looks at us as much as we look back at it.

Mayra Henriquez, Museum Leader SFKM