We woke up on the first morning to the beauty of the first blankets of snow at Mt Tanigawa and from there on, the weather flowed smoothly through our collaborations at the UNESCO Biosphere reserve in Minakami, Japan. We embraced the deep rain, low clouds, mist and potent sunshine- perfect to make the persimmon season ‘pop’!

Next year will be the Minakami Biosphere’s tenth anniversary and we look forward to contributing to the festivities (in June), we’ll also be participating in the Nakanojo Biennale (October) as well as collaborating with the Finnish Cultural Institute in Japan and the Royal Norwegian Embassy on events! … Field notes from Japan

LANDART Gjerdrum returns this October for its eighth edition. Liva Mork and Mari Meen-Halsøy’s notorious vision of relational and site-specific art in the landscape has reliably caused a stir, and we urge everyone to make the trip! From 10–25 October, in Gjerdrum (near the Oslo airport) in Norway. … LANDART Gjerdrum 2026

Eyes as Big as Plates is taking part in the group show When The World Shimmers, which opens at the old National Gallery in Oslo tomorrow as part of this year’s Oslo Negativ photography festival. … Oslo Negativ opens tomorrow!

We are excited to reveal that Eyes as Big as Plates will be part of the exhibition High Tide, opening this October at BRUSK, the brand-new museum at the heart of Bruges’ Museum Quarter in Belgium.

… Shrimps and High Tide at BRUSK, Bruges

Opening 27 September 2026, Museum Kunst der Westküste (MKdW), Alkersum / Föhr, Germany. New Perspectives: Contemporary Art from the West Coast Art Collection presents a selection of recent additions to the museum’s international contemporary art collection. The exhibition brings together artists whose work engages with the coast as a site of change, encounter and contemporary experience. … New Perspectives: Contemporary Art From The West Coast Art Collection

More Danish delights this week under the notoriously blue skies as we ziggzagged the crag valleys on the Island of Bornholm with Jens and Camilla.

With grace that only a trained forest bathing guide could have, Camilla snuggled waist deep into a bog followed by the tripod and Karoline. As a new twist of Eyes as Big as Plates methodology, we continued with a second shoot, where Camilla wedged herself into the portal connection between a rock and an oak, accompanied by some dryad’s saddle mushrooms. 

… Bornholm doubles

Holidays are creeping closer and festive spirits firmly rising! For those of you looking for gifts, we are way past the ideal snail mail timing, but in case your  special someone appreciates surprises a little later than the last week of December, we are ready with our best cursive, and can dedicate the book before adding greetings from you.

 If you’d like to feast your eyes on some Eyes as Big as Plates works on exhibit and happen to stroll on the streets of Helsinki, Finland, do pop into the Finnish National Gallery ‘Ateneum’ to see their current exhibition A Question of Time.

… Exhibition invites and winter greetings

Once a year Finnskogen in the South East of Norway turns into a republic. ‘Finnskogen’ translates as ‘Finnish forest’, and it has been shaped by migrating people from the Savolax area in Finland since the late 16th to mid 17th centuries. Since our first visit to the village of Svullrya in 2019, we have soaked up tall tales, hard facts, rune songs and black coffee, roaming the deep forests and floating islands together with the tight knit community of locals. … Talking rock – Public commission for the Norwegian Forest Finn Museum

As part of Circular Week in Warsaw, Poland, a series of Eyes as Big as Plates works was exhibited at Kultura Wysoka during the European Sustainability Congress, which took place last week. The international series of events and initiatives was dedicated to circular economy and sustainable development, taking place across Europe. European Sustainability Congress is one of the biggest international events about circular economy, and is the focal point of the events in 2025. Grateful bows to the Royal Norwegian Embassy of Warsaw for supporting the exhibition. … Circular Week 2025 & The European Sustainability Congress, Warsaw

Eyes as Big as Plates reports from Koksijde, Oostduinkerke, Belgium:

Dates: 17th to 26th October, in the Year of the Snake 2025
Phase of Moon: New
Tides: Marked rise and fall, near five fathoms between high and low water
Winds: Variable, from fair to gale force through the period
Weather: Generally temperate; fair with passing cloud and showers; barometer unsteady
Sea Temperature: +14°C
Operational Speed: 3 rolls of film per day, 1 kilo of boiled shrimp, 1 bucket of mussels, 1 bucket of scallops, 1 laundry bag of blue jellyfish, 2 wetsuits,  2 sets of waders, 1 fishery museum, 2 zeewonks, Martha, the Belgian draft horse.
Position: 51°00′ 15 N – 02°39′ 44 E … Shrimpers’ log

If you happen to be in Warsaw, Poland over the next three days, don’t miss the 2025 Przemiany Festival, unfolding in the Copernicus Science Center from 3-5 October. This year’s festival theme was born out of the belief that empathy is the core competence of the future: ‘Empathy. For the naive or for the brave?’ and is looking at compassion from a broad perspective – neuroscience, evolutionary biology, the development of Artificial Intelligence and ecology. … Przemiany Festival in Warsaw opening tomorrow!