Quiet by Nature is a photographic artist book by Louise Bøgelund Saugmann - the series of photographic works is made of layered photographs from Pinseskoven (the Pentacost Forest) on the outskirts of Copenhagen. Over a long period of time, Bøgelund Saugmann has photographed the forest with her medium format camera on different days and seasons. It is said that Pinseskoven once upon a time planted itself from seeds that flew from across the water in Sweden. Today the mythical forest is protected, as it contains and sustains animal and plant life not seen anywhere else in Denmark.

The complete two chapter work by Louise Bøgelund Saugmann, Quiet by Nature, contains chapter one, 26.01.18, and chapter 2, 55˚35’12.8”N 12˚32’56.2”E, in a beautiful box made to house them both.

Together the two chapters form a complete unit, and, in the world we live in today, when everything often goes very fast, Quiet by Nature offers a welcomed respite for you to slow down and breathe with the trees.

Quiet by Nature
26.01.18
Leporello
Printed on 120 gr. MultiDesign Natural
144 colour images

55˚35'12.8”N 12˚32'56.2”E
Soft cover book with unique hand-coloured cover
Printed on 110 gr. tracing paper
120 pages

Ringe / Ripples
Text (In both Danish and English) by Danish artist, Filip Vest

Price 160 euro

Both books come in boxes that are mixed and matched by the artist and publisher to make every single one similar, but unique - just like a tree in a forest. Due to each box’ uniqueness, colouring, cover and details may vary from the pictures.

Please be aware that as the books are hand-made, prolonged delivery times may occur.

Special Print Edition
Twelve books come as a special print edition, where two fine art prints, one from each part, signed and numbered by the artist, come with the book. The only editions available in this form are no. 6 (sold), 12 (sold), 18 (sold), 24 (sold), 30, 36, 42 (sold), 48 (sold), 54, 60, 66 and 72 (sold).

Price 240 euro

About Chapter I: 26.01.18
In 26.01.18 Bøgelund Saugmann investigates breathing with the trees.

As an astmatic child she was confined to her bed for days unable to breathe properly. Ever since, Bøgelund Saugmann has had an urge to create photographic spaces, where there is room to breathe - both concretely and in a metaphorical sense. In her search for a place to be at peace and to fully breathe, she started regularly visiting the same forest in the Copenhagen outskirts (Pinseskoven).

Bøgelund Saugmann continued to visit the forest for the next six years, and with every visit she would make 12 photographs of the same scene with trees, sitting in the same position on a rock with her medium format camera. She would then use the analogue photographic process of layering one image upon another as her method for collecting the passage of time, imagining that each individual, layered photographic piece was a breath from the forest.

26.01.18 shows one of many days, January 26, 2018, spent in the forest. Including all the layers, it contains 144 photographs.

About Chapter II: 55˚35'12.8”N 12˚32'56.2”E
55˚35'12.8”N 12˚32'56.2”E are the geographic coordinates of a specific location in the forest, where Bøgelund Saugmann sat with her camera and photographed the trees. She has spent countless hours in that place, on a specific rock, in the forest.

She started photographing trees in 2015. The same scene of trees over and over again on different days, through many seasons. While 26.01.18 shows one of these days, January 26 2018, 55˚35'12.8”N 12˚32'56.2”E shows many days, many seasons.

A lot of time was spent in the forest with the same trees and many photographs, which she then layered and systematically arranged. The system emerged as the project unfolded, just as the layers did afterwards, when Bøgelund Saugman sat with all the many photographs of the same trees. She put the photographs on top of each other. 6 layers. 12 layers. It became a kind of rhythm or pulse.

Trees are quiet by nature.