In Every Stone Sleeps a Crystal

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.

The Sand Drift Monument (Sandflugtsmonumentet in Danish) and Helene Kilde are about 1.8 km apart in a straight line. The monument is southeast of the spring, and the spring is down by the beach below Helenekilde Badehotel.

Following roads and paths, the trip is roughly 2–2.5 km. The spring sits just below the hotel on Strandvejen, so you can use the hotel as your target if you're navigating.

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, I’ve forgotten her name, gave me the Enigma album as a parting gift.

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Danish artist Kasper Bergholt works at the edges of post-photography, poetry and visual art from his base in Copenhagen. 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 been shown across four continents: at the Oculus in New York, at Alusta in Helsinki in collaboration with the Finnish National Gallery, at Blackrock Castle Observatory in Cork, and in Melbourne, Taipei and Chongqing.

He is a member of the Royal Photographic Society (UK), the Society for Danish Photography, the Nordic Society of Photography, and Rhizome, the international hub for new media.

Recurring concerns: time, solar eclipse triptychs, flowers, and digital archaeology, currently exploring and interpreting the BBS culture of the mid 90s.