In 2008 I decided to tell my story about Adnan and his exceptional interest in collecting and cataloging plants from Scandinavian forests.
Respecting the biological knowlegde Adnan aqcuired, I have engaged the quaternary geologist Anna Plikk to reconstruct a collection of pollen-sculptures, a pollen-archive.
The photos from Adnans walks are all taken by me, a sort of reconstruction of the walks, and Adnans situation.
I have created profiles at facebook, spotify and instagram, suggesting who I think Adnan could be today. When spending time on the internet, time passes by very quick. It turnes into a meditative navigation, npt unlike the experience of walking for ours in the woods.
Amazing presentations of countless artprojects, musicvideos, soundworks, or stuff about global environmental challenges replaces eachother, and forces (me) to think.
Through Adnans social profiles, his concerns and interests I am creating a portait, a sort of personal characteristics, as i have done in other projects like l'Orangerie and Eliassens samling as well.
Adnans Arboretum was shown as an early version at Haugar art museum the spring 2011.
Lars Traegde
