Oslofjord
2016 – 2023

Risograph-printed artist book, both digital and riso-printed photographs (always produced on demand), vitrines of wood and glass, clear silicon, discussion-based mediation for schoolchildren

First edition, Hverdag Books 2016
Galleri Storck (Oslo) 2016
Second edition, Issue Press (US) 2022
Roots and Culture (Chicago) 2022
Vinterutstillingen ØBK (Halden) 2023
Den kulturelle skolesekken 2023
Norske Grafikere (Oslo) 2024
Den kulturelle skolesekken 2025

Several works based on uncanny bits of plastic, molded by the sun and waves to resemble familiar natural objects such as pebbles and shells. These odd bit of plastic (mostly styrofoam) that compose the collection were originally picked exclusively on the innermost islands accessible by public ferry in the inner Oslo fjord.

Oslofjord bears witness to an intrusion of the artificial into the organic, the manufactured into nature — but also of the artificial masquerading as organic, the manufactured attaining an almost natural quality by exposure to time... Every image is saturated with a weird, phantasmagorical intensity. Williams' book depicts a slow-moving violence that affects the very categories by which we make sense of things. There is a clear environmental agenda in the work, but not as a pointing of fingers; more as a way of illustrating how these issues affects us at a phenomenological level. — Bladr (Copenhagen)

This project received relatively little local attention when it was first made, only rejections. Recognition at home only came for the first time after 8 years, coinciding with this second edition published in the US by Issue Press (Grand Rapids).

Photographs, each 70 x 100cm, printed on-demand in 2022. Part of the group exhibition down to earth curated by Kathy Cho at Roots & Culture Contemporary Art Center (Chicago, USA). Documentation by Robert Chase Heishman.

A series of assemblages have also been exhibited. The edition is ongoing and open: equal to the number of these particular (plastic-free) vitrines I am able to find at thrift shops and flea markets in and around Oslo.

Since 2023, I have been visiting classes of schoolchildren through Den kulturelle skolesekken. The mediation of the artwork weaves together my story of migrating to Norway, how a sudden and sharp awareness of plastic's constant presence forever changed me, and playing a game with my strange and enticing "rock" collection.

In total, in 2023 and 2025, I have visited over 130 classes in the 2nd, 5th, and 8th grades in Fredrikstad and Akershus.