Marie Kølbæk Iversen is a Danish artist whose art pieces often involve and revolve around the nature and the heathlands of Western Jutland. She is also one of the contributors to the forthcoming digital publication: A place for the Heathlands? See more of Marie's art projects here

On August 14 a new art piece done by Marie Kølbæk Iversen called "Modsol" will be revealed in Herning. 

About Modsol:

Modsol was developed for Herning Gymnasium on the occasion of the school’s 100th anniversary in 2023 and is based on the pre-industrial culture and history of the Herning region. The work consists of a high-gloss polished sculpture in stainless steel, which is erected on the lawn in front of the gymnasium. The shape of the sculpture is based on the preferred cure of the West Jutland wise woman Kjæn Krathus, earth drawing, where a sick or hopeful person was pulled through a hole in a large grass sod three times counterclockwise. Afterwards, the sod was put back, and once it had grown back, the patient would have recovered in case of illness, or the hopeful’s wish would have been fulfilled.

Modsol is a 2.37-meter-high circular troll mirror with a vertical slit in the middle. The sculpture is placed frontally against the rising sun in the east, and from this angle, the two halves of the circle are internally offset so that one arc reaches forward towards the observer, and the other backward towards the sun. As a consequence of the form’s manipulation, the sculpture breaks both the sun’s light and its surroundings in the curved surface and reflects the sky and the lawn. Thus, the ritual’s grass sod is established as the lasting motif for the work through the lawn’s reflection in the work.