What I am doing now...
If you happen to be curious about the juicier details of my life, I hope that the book about my life and art that I am currently working on will also be available in English in due time. If published, it will come out primarily in my native language Swedish. The opus will to a large extent be based on the diaries I've kept since I was a child, and include a wealth of good quality images, photos as well as my artwork. Some questions that are central to my analyses are:
What does it mean to be a human being? What is it like to live through a complicated destiny or life path, and how do you deal with the idea of karma and destiny? What do people's emotional lives look like? How do you penetrate the level of emotions and learn to use emotions as a tool without losing yourself in the meantime? How do you achieve a balance between vulnerability and empowerement, openness and being closed off? How do you navigate withing human relationships without being blind to your own needs and compromising them? How do you obtain healthy autonomy while retaining and developing a connection with other people? How do you manage if you're mentally, physically or socially limited? What does it mean to be rated a second rate citizen if you're disabled in some way or otherwise a "social outcast"? How do you survive an oversensitive personality without destroying yourself? How do you survive life?
Pages From My Diary © 2002
The artwork can certainly be seen as complementary to the text. I have done massive work with myself over the years, and opened up a dormant emotional life. This perpetuous work has become a lifestyle. It also means that I am very interested in emotions and the interaction between human beings, and this preoccupies me quite a bit.
Me, Myself and I - Towards Integration © 2008
Myself and my cat Robin 2009
