Crop

The text, the missing letter, the graphic pattern.
Text in emergency orange installed with whited out letter /o/. Every /o/ removed is kept as trace and recreated into an open pattern.

“Crop”, written in an interwoven trilingual syntax takes the form of a pattern-led litany to express the frequently violent impact of border-crossings, language-crossings for minority or differential status of all kinds. And the way we are each inhabited by this.

In bookform, it is preceded by “Cropper”, a short poetic autobiographic account on discovering my sexuality as minoritarian, and the decision to adopt English as a personal base for my writing & living. Pleasure and trauma. Working a way through.

Some never had a body to call their  own before it was taken away
som aldri hadde en kropp de kunne kalle sin egen før den ble revet bort
ceux dont le corps d’emblée leur est arraché

note – “kropp” is pronounced “crop” = “body” in Norwegian.
“noen” = “some” (Norw.);  close to French “nous” (“we“).
“oss” = “us” (Norw.) = pronounced French “os” (“bone“).
In the installation format, the /o/ are all whited out.