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Foris is a collection of eight graphic art prints designed by Mette Rødtnes, each one rooted in the landscape immediately surrounding her home south of Aarhus.
The word foris is Latin for a threshold between the interior world and the natural one. That tension is at the heart of this collection. Each print begins as a photograph: bark, leaves, climbing plants, the stripped surface of an old tree. The photographs are not the artwork. They are the raw material from which entirely new graphic compositions have been made; translated into unexpected colour palettes, abstracted until the origin becomes a quiet secret rather than an obvious subject.
The natural structures are chosen with purpose. Research in environmental psychology has established that visual references to nature - even highly abstracted ones - trigger a genuine restorative response in the human nervous system. Heart rate slows. Attention recovers. The effect is not aesthetic preference. It is physiological. A print on the wall of an office carries the same quiet influence as one hung at home: it gives the room something to return to.
Foris reflects Mette's parallel practice as an interior designer, and each print has been conceived with considered placement in mind; as fitting in a private home as in a workspace where the quality of the environment is understood to matter.
They are not decorative in the conventional sense. They are objects with intention.