Animalia
My work started of as a material based research, I had no story and I had no goal…
I just needed to keep my hands busy and get them to like the materials I had in front of me. And as my work progressed I started to see different qualities in the materials and a story started to take place in my mind. Horn and the antler of the horn was the one part I took from my previous body of work, in that collection it was the supporting act but now it had taken the main focus. All the pieces contain horn from deer, elk or reindeer these strong animals that is a proud bearer of a natural crown. I started to react to my surrounding more and more, and I realised that the deer was living in the forest next to my house, surrounded by a city, enclosed in a green prison. I thought this was just about them…but I realised more and more that this is also about me and my living situation. Being originally from the countryside in the northern part of Sweden I can also sometimes feel trapped in Stockholm…I want to live two different life at the same time, I love my life in Stockholm but I also love to be at my sisters farm in my working clothes, working close to the animals and breathing the fresh air of the open landscape. The peanut is the representation of some homes in Stockholm, small and dark, sometimes with two nuts and sometimes with one almost never empty. Is it a quality to be home in two places or is it just a feeling of wanting to be somewhere else all the time, or to be home in the place you where last??
New animal in an urban nature,
in a small forest surrounded by houses.
Human occupation by their home..
Didn’t ask to be there, now there is
no way out.
New outfit, new colour..
Blend into the crowd…pass by
without anyone noticing you.
Walk to the end of the road and
then you are across the border.
Get back to the old you again,
get out of the city costume…