Nurturing, Harvesting, Manifesting My New Imagination II, 2026

Sculptures, video, and drawings.

Imagination/fantasy, not as an escape from reality but as a tool for presence.

I think of my artistic practice as a chain. I make one thing, which leads to another, which leads somewhere else. A line becomes a symbol, a symbol becomes a movement, a movement becomes a drawing, a drawing becomes a body, a body becomes a room. I let the chain lead with the most important part being the action of creating, of continuing.

This installation grew out of that way of working and out of contemplations on the similarity between artistic and spiritual practices. At its centre sits a figure surrounded by the remains and extensions of a practice: drawings, sculpture, video, fabric, marks and symbols.

These ideas came from my discovery of ‘chaos magic’ and its idea of creating a personal system from whatever feels meaningful. A found object can become a talisman. A private gesture can become a ritual. How meaning can be freely made through repetition, attention and belief.

I recognize something of my own artistic practice in this. I collect detail-work, movements, images and sounds, and through working with them they slowly begin to form their own relationships.

The installation has been shown twice, first at Bildmuseet in Umeå as part of the MFA-exhibition ”Of Love and Care”. Secondly at Köttinspektionen in Uppsala as part of the group exhibition ”Peaks of Presence”