Anna Lise Jensen

Anna Lise Jensen

  • News Bio/CV
  • Harbor Lines, 2023
  • Harbor Library, 2022
  • Plant Library, 2022
  • Tidal Strait, 2021
  • more work
    • Jane Jacobs Lives Here: Bike the Verrazzano, 2020
    • Poetic Action, 2020-2021
    • Trying, 2020
    • Political Office, 2018-2019
    • Jamaica, Queens, 2012- 2016
    • Fjellerup i Bund & Grund, 2013-2015
    • Al Safa, Bay Ridge, 2013
    • A Hard Read residency, 2012
    • At Home at Hopper('s) House, 2011
    • A Lot, NY community gardens, 2009-2013
    • Vets & Pets, 2008 - 2010
    • Faceless Portrait, 2007
    • Visitor, 2006 - 2010
    • "Outsiders" and "Insiders" 2004-present
Vandmolekyle/Water Molecule
Pileflet/willow weaving
Circa 4 x 4 x 4 meter.

Text from Alyssa Casey: Vandmolekyle draws from local knowledge, experience, and hands-on, practical techniques to depict a fantastical vision of that which we take for granted. The five baskets represent the molecular orbital diagram of water. Each region of space encapsulated by a basket shows the probability of where the electrons of each atom of water are likely to be found; oxygen is at the center, two baskets represent the oxygen-hydrogen bond, and the other two represent the pairs of valence electrons responsible for water's vital properties of solvency, cohesion, and adhesion. The willow is grown by the basket weaver Inge Madsen, in Auning, and I took a two hour basket weaving workshop from her and Sonja Schultz. As I continued working at Ruth's Have, local visitors could learn the technique as well, thus creating a conduit of local knowledge and sparking new conversations.


Space All Over: The Transient Village Green since 2004. All images copyright Anna Lise Jensen.