About me and my thougths about what I do...

...The process is what keeps me going in my work. My way of getting close is often intuitive, unpredictable and based on what I feel and think in the moment. I rarely work out of a specific idea about the end result. I tend to work starting in a now where the experiences, my thoughts and feelings suddenly appear. It is an open process, constantly changing and always under construction. I am exploring everything and nothing through the power of my process and I am drawn to the undecided.

Ways of working
My thoughts, reflections and passing moments are turning into words that follow the structure of a language, philosophical journeys where the words are important. I often use Natural science trying to illustrate my thinking. This is the written part of my work, where the words can be what they are representing what they mean. It is looking at things in a bigger picture or, looking at the same picture but from another side. I look upon my ability to think/philosophise and write about what I do out of another perspective as important and specific to my method of working. They walk hand in hand with my jewellery, talking about the same thoughts but in different languages.

My thoughts, reflections and passing moments are also turned into objects with it’s own language without the frames and meanings words have. I strive to find the essence of a piece, the natural. I want my pieces to be what they are. No more but also no less, with all the openings of reflection that brings to a piece. My material, shapes and functions are most times spontaneous, asking rather then telling. I constantly collect as I go along, cataloguing my findings in my own chaos, mixing my thoughts from yesterday with what I just found. I am looking for the appreciation in a something right now, there and then.
What once got me to start formulate my pieces is not relevant to the wearer/viewer, possibly interesting. To me the important part is when a piece awakes a will, a need or a feeling responding to what you have in front of you. That is where the magic happens.

Why not jewellery?
Making jewellery is not a matter of course to me; some of my pieces never make it back onto the body. But most of them do and I still wonder why? To me, the wearing of an object, a piece of jewellery is strongly connected to treasuring; it is a gesture of giving something value and appreciation. One important quality a piece of jewellery own is the quality of belonging. Belonging to a wearer as well as belonging to a story but also the momentarily belonging to each and every viewer. Another interesting aspect of jewellery is the communicative quality. There is often a telling in a piece; maybe not a readable story, like those in a book. Rather a something; there for the wearer/viewer to respond to, reflect upon and maybe even carry on…
To me a piece will be its own after I make it. It will be affected over time; it will change and start to tell things I can never predict…

CV (Education and workshops)

Education

MFA at Ädellab/metallformgivning, Konstfack 2004 – 2006
University of Arts, Crafts and Design

BFA at Metallformgivning, Konstfack 2001 - 2004
University of Arts, Crafts and Design

Nyckelviksskolan 2000 – 2001

Liljehomens FHSK Art study 1995 – 1997

PR and Decorations High School 1992 – 1994

Workshops, short courses etc.

Object/Idea, Suska Mackert, Manon van Kouswijk Feb (one week) 2005
Workshop at Konstfack during Identity project

Alchimia, Contemporary jewellery school Jan 16 – Feb 17 2004
Intensive course

Jewellery and Taboos, Karen Pontoppidan Sept (one week) 2003
Workshop at Konstfack

Updating History, Hilde De Decker June 9-11 2003
Workshop during Koru 1, Finland

Scholarships (Selection)
Konstnärsnämdens Arbetsstipendium 2007
Fleming och Färngrens stipendiestiftelse 2006
KA Rasmussen materialstipendium 2006
Adolf Lindgrens Stiftelse 2005
Fabrikör JL Eklunds Hantverksstiftelse 2004-2006
Estrid Ericsson 2003