Year: 2003


'Derfor'
Oktober — November 2003
Danish Craft at Paustian, Copenhagen

186 neon tubes distributed in ten pattern units that can be combined individually and generate c. three
million different patterns.


The pattern changes every eight seconds.


Bought by the National Arts Foundation.


The close affinity of certain of the works with the anatomy and idiom of the kaleidoscope is emblematic of the work with patterns – not as fixed forms but as recognizable
elements in constantly shifting pattern formations.

The work "Ornament", created
for a major design exhibition at Paustian, Copenhagen, is the fulfilment of a dream of creating
a kaleidoscope – with textile
techniques, of course, and just
as inevitably with materials that are far from the traditional textiles. "Ornament" consists
of a tissue of patterns – thousands
of them – created in neon tubes. When the tubes light up, go out and change colour, they are combined into a kaleidoscope
of radiant, ever-changing patterns.

"Why did you create such an insanely expensive work?" was the curator’s question to Astrid Krogh.

"Dreams can’t be measured
in money," was the text that accompanied the work in the exhibition.