Material: Forest-patinated bronze

Dimensions: 57 x 22 cm (length x width)

Edition: Limited edition of 12 + 3 Artist's Proofs (AP)

"On Rooting" by Julie Lænkholm is a bronze sculpture cast one-to-one from a fragment of an exposed tree root found in Tisvilde Hegn, one of Denmark's most biodiverse forests. Over four months, Lænkholm conserved the original root together with a senior conservator at the National Museum of Denmark before transporting the decaying section to Pietrasanta, Italy, where it was cast in bronze using the lost-wax technique.

Lænkholm's practice is guided by the question of how we care for the materials and places around us, moving between sculpture, textile and site-specific intervention. Central to her work is the concept of maintenance: not preservation in a static sense, but an ongoing, attentive relationship with the world. Her process is slow, physical and rooted in place, often involving techniques passed on through oral tradition or long-term ecological engagement.

Intimate in scale but wide in story, the work carries the memory of a fallen tree and the patience of a winter spent caring for it. The edition originates from two smaller root sections detached from the main form, quiet fragments that carry the memory of the whole. "On Rooting" is a quiet insistence that the most meaningful creative act is sometimes simply paying attention to what is already there.

Each example can be shown as a freestanding sculpture or mounted on a wall.

Delivery: Made to order, with a lead time of 8 to 10 weeks.