The oldest light we can observe, the cosmic microwave background radiation, is nearly 14 billion years old. One of the defining traits of light is that it cannot truly be owned, at least not yet. In a sense, trees can archive light temporarily through photosynthesis and transform it into chemical energy. A line can be… Continue reading The Artificiality of Art & Degas’ Obsession
Viktor Shklovsky: On Flax from ‘On Freedom of Art’, The Third Factory, 1926
Flax, if it had a voice, would be screaming while processed. It’s grabbed by the head and pulled out of the ground. Roots and all. It’s sown thickly for self-suppression, so that it grows stunted and does not branch out. Flax needs oppression. It’s pulled around. It’s spread-eagled on the fields, and elsewhere soaked in… Continue reading Viktor Shklovsky: On Flax from ‘On Freedom of Art’, The Third Factory, 1926
“The Time Is Out of Joint” in Shakespeare’s Hamlet
This started out as a photo of the coastline of Sweden seen from Hellerup, Denmark, in a somewhat dystopian light punctuated by the distant silhouette of the Barsebäck nuclear power plant. Initially, the photo was titled ‘Last Day of March,’ after someone nearby said, ‘This looks like the end of everything.’ While reading Jacques Derrida’s… Continue reading “The Time Is Out of Joint” in Shakespeare’s Hamlet
System Poetry: Gibson, Wordsworth, Shakespeare (3 x Williams)
In 2011 I wrote a system poem. In 2024 I inscribed it into the Bitcoin blockchain. In 2025 I finished a photography-based work, ICE | July | 1982, built around the idea of William Gibson’s Black ICE: the cryptographic membrane that, in Neuromancer, wraps data against intrusion. In 2026 I returned to the same poetic… Continue reading System Poetry: Gibson, Wordsworth, Shakespeare (3 x Williams)
Sun: Triptychs for Solar Eclipses
August 12th 2026, a total solar eclipse crossed continental Europe, the first visible here since August 11th 1999. The word eclipse comes from the Greek ekleipsis, “a leaving out.” Against that omission stands phaínesthai: to come into appearance. Sun is a triptych consisting of a system poem, which regularises the noun column of a 2011… Continue reading Sun: Triptychs for Solar Eclipses
‘Flora Excursoria Hafniensis’
Salomon Thomas Nicolai Drejer The series draws on a book by the Danish botanist Salomon Thomas Nicolai Drejer (born February 15th, 1813, Eveldrup; died April 21th, 1842, Copenhagen), published in 1838, at which point Drejer was 25 years old. Flora Danica From 1841 to 1842, Drejer served as editor of Flora Danica. He did not… Continue reading ‘Flora Excursoria Hafniensis’
Garden of the Royal Danish Library in Light Snowfall
Light snowfall over the Garden of the Royal Danish Library (also known as The Royal Library Gardens), which was designed in 1920 by architects Jens Peder Andersen and Thorvald Jørgensen. The Garden of the Royal Danish Library, one of the oldest university library gardens in Europe, known as Det Kongelige Biblioteks Have in Danish, or… Continue reading Garden of the Royal Danish Library in Light Snowfall
About
I’m Kasper Bergholt, a Danish artist and photographer based in Copenhagen. In 2023, I picked up a vintage Nikon camera for a minor photography project, which led to more visual work. I’m interested in poetry, time, triptychs, flowers, and chronotopes. I hold an MA from the University of Copenhagen. Exhibitions / contributions • Solar Eclipse,… Continue reading About
