Artist Statement

 

When I work, I use traditional materials such as wood, metal and ceramics. I consider hand-making to be an important part of my sculptures. Through doing, I feel I am gaining knowledge about materials. Usually, doing is for me a process where there may not be any pre-chewed idea, or it may not be implemented as such, but the work evolves with the making. As a rule, I make three-dimensional works.

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I want to feel present as I work with my whole body. The size of the works usually varies a lot depending on, for example, the exhibition space, and the materials I use. Perception and drawing serve as the basis for my works.

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I try to deal with the topics I choose subtly and usually the style of my works is not offensive. They are more quiet and in a sense a bit classic (timeless), but also caught in the moment. Lately I have reflected my own relationship with the environment and nature, and what kind of emotional experience, for example, fleeing nature experience raises. However, my intention is not to think of nature as an object but to examine it as if through imagination.

Things like the effects of climate change on forest health are things that I personally find relevant to address on an emotional level, as well as on a pictorial level. I feel that they take shape together in my art. By means of sculpture, or installation.

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In my works, natural material has begun to combine with some man-made industrial material, creating even a slightly strange manifestation. As a sculptor, I feel more like a builder than a traditional sculptor who adds or removes materials when shaping.

I am looking for some stopping impression from art as a counterforce to a socially oppressive state. and through which to find a deeper and more diverse meaning for life.