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Julie Lænkholm ON ROOTING

Cast one-to-one from a fallen tree in Tisvilde Hegn, this bronze edition preserves what the forest revealed – and lets the forest finish what the foundry began.

Edition Solenne exclusively presents a limited edition sculpture by Artist Julie Lænkholm

A bronze sculpture cast one-to-one from a fragment of a forest root. Intimate in scale but vast in story, it carries the memory of a fallen tree, the patience of a winter spent caring for it, and the quiet insistence that the most meaningful creative act is sometimes simply paying attention to what is already there.
Forest-patinated bronze
I walked to the root almost every day throughout the winter — brushing away the soil, watching the tree change. It was about seeing what was already there I wanted to bring back the root to be patinated by the forest it self, I wanted to restore a rotten root and bring it back to the mother root
Julie Lænkholm In Tisvilde Hegn, North Zealand
— Julie Lænkholm In Tisvilde Hegn, North Zealand
"Last year I brought a rotten root to Italy..."
I've lived near this forest for five or six years, and walking here has become a daily practice — almost two hours a day. During one of those walks last autumn, I found this enormous fallen tree with its entire root system exposed. Over the following weeks, as I watched one side of the root slowly rotting, I called Birgitte Larsen, a senior conservator at the National Museum, and asked her: if I wanted to conserve a tree root, how would I do it? She told me which brushes to use, which tools to bring. And so for four months, through the whole winter, I went down to the root and restored it — gently removing soil, brushing the surface, just being with it.
The Forest Ministry gave me permission to take the rotten section to Pietrasanta, where some of the most skilled bronze casters in the world work. When they opened the crate, there was this wonderful moment of alarm — 'The root is rotten! The root is rotten!' And I said, yes, that's the point. They had never cast anything like it before. We cut it into eight pieces, made moulds of each one, cast them individually in bronze, and then assembled them back into the full root. It was incredibly precise, delicate work by extraordinary hands.
In bronze sculpture, the final step is usually patination — applying chemicals to colour and protect the surface. But this root came from the forest, and I felt strongly that it should return there. So instead of patinating it in the Italian workshop, we brought the bronze cast back to Tisvilde Hegn and placed it on the mother root where it originally came from. For the past six months, the forest has been doing the patination — rain, moss, minerals, time. The sculpture isn't finished by me; it's finished by the place it belongs to. It makes sense to me to bring it back to where it belongs and let the forest create the patina.
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On Rooting

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Dimensions 57 x 22 cm (length x width)

Edition: Edition of 12 + 3 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 in collaboration with the National Museum's senior conservator, before transporting the decaying section to Pietrasanta, Italy, where it was cast in bronze by master craftsmen.

Delivery Time: 8 - 10 weeks delivery

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On Rooting — New Limited-Edition Bronze Sculpture by Julie Lænkholm Debuts via Edition Solenne

Edition Solenne presents "On Rooting," a limited-edition bronze sculpture born from a fallen tree in one of Denmark's most biodiverse forests.

"On Rooting" is a bronze cast made one-to-one from a section of exposed tree root discovered in Tisvilde Hegn, North Zealand. The work emerges from a months-long conservation practice in which Lænkholm cared for the decaying root in situ before transporting it to Pietrasanta, Italy, for casting by master bronze artisans.

Key Details

  • Material: Forest-patinated bronze.
  • Dimensions: $57 \times 22$ cm (length x width).
  • Edition: Limited edition of $12 + 3$ Artist's Proofs (AP).
  • Price: 18.500 DKK (excl. artist VAT).
  • Delivery: 8-10 weeks.
  • Display: Freestanding sculpture or wall-mounted.

Concept & Artistic Approach

Lænkholm's practice centres on maintenance — the act of preserving and caring for what already exists. Working in collaboration with Birgitte Larsen, senior conservator at the National Museum of Denmark, she spent four winter months conserving the original root using traditional restoration techniques. The rotten section was then cast in bronze in Pietrasanta.

Rather than applying a conventional studio patina, Lænkholm returned the main sculpture to the forest to be patinated by the forest itself. The larger bronze has been acquired by Gammel Holtegård. The Edition Solenne editions are cast from two smaller root fragments that detached from the same system — intimate echoes of a much larger story of care, decay, and transformation.

About Julie Lænkholm

Julie Lænkholm is a Danish visual artist whose practice spans sculpture, textile, and site-specific work. Her research-led approach explores maintenance, oral histories, and collective forms of knowledge. She is currently pursuing a practice-based PhD investigating how maintenance can function as both an artistic method and a form of ecological care.

About Edition Solenne

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