EVERY LIGHTHOUSE has three sectors – the white sector, which is the safe course to navigate, and the green and red sectors where the course leads into dangerous waters. When you move away from the white sector you move into an uncharted zone.

Moving into red sector is about unintended cource changes, moving into the unknown. Once you move into that sector you are alone and cut off from the ordinary routine of life. In our Red sector deadline art project, we lived and breathed the the harsh environment around Lille Presteskjær lighthouse. This is the story of what we found.

Red sector is our 24th deadline art project at mentalpropell.com

Deadline art is an artistic process where the artists explore the possibility of creating art under the working conditions of a press photographer. This entails arriving at an unknown place with only a vague brief (or mantra as we like to put it), having a very brief (and defined) time to produce a finished work. No excuses: the work has to be excellent. Swipe away daily mundane thinking and get down to serious play. At mentalpropell we are a group of practitioners that love both the process and the result of the deadline art approach. We hope you will enjoy it too.

The team that created Red Sector on location are Anki Gneib, Annica Thomsson, Eirik V Johnsen and Kristian Pohl. Helge Kaasin created the words after the fact and Fredrik Mathieson hand-lettered them. Red Sector is the joint creation of all these collaborators.

You can find the other projects from SX-70 Europe and other artists at mentalpropell.com