29/03/2026
On Rooting — Julie Lænkholm
Filmed in Tisvilde Hegn, North Zealand
“I’ve lived near this forest for five or six years. Walking here has become a daily practice — almost two hours a day.”
It was on one of those walks that Julie found the fallen tree. She called Birgitte Larsen, senior conservator at the National Museum of Denmark, and asked a simple question: if I wanted to conserve a tree root, how would I do it?
After casting the main sculpture in bronze at Fonderia Mariani in Pietrasanta, Julie made a decision most sculptors wouldn’t — she skipped the patination. Instead of finishing the surface in the workshop, she brought the bronze back to the forest and placed it on the mother root where it originally came from.
For six months now, the forest has been doing the work — rain, moss, minerals, time. The sculpture isn’t finished by the artist. It’s finished by the place it belongs to.
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