In every stone sleeps a crystal

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Pigments on kozo paper (broussonetia papyrifera fibres), linseed oil & varnish.

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Rocks in Tisvilde, near the spot where the holy spring Helene Kilde seeps out.

In every stone sleeps a crystal is a line from an Enigma album from 1993 or 1994. It was the year I was on exchange in Bologna.

I remember being served a single artichoke as a course in itself, and talking with the father of the family in fragments of French.

And the city’s fountains. And a sense that there was something different about the water, that the city had a different keynote.

On my last evening there, the mother of the girl I had been staying with gave me the Enigma album as a parting gift.

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About the artist:

Kasper Bergholt is a Danish artist and photographer based in Copenhagen, working at the edges of photography, poetry and visual art.

He holds an MA from the University of Copenhagen and publishes poetry in Danish journals including Hvedekorn and Slagtryk.

Since picking up a vintage Nikon in 2023, his work has shown at the Oculus in New York, Alusta in Helsinki with the Finnish National Gallery, Blackrock Castle Observatory in Cork

Recurring concerns: time, triptychs, flowers, chronotopes, and the memory of stone.