Grateful and Happy to announce that I´m one of the performers at FRED & FRIHET PÅ KVINNODAGEN 8 MARS. LILITH & EVE is a music community for women and non-binary people since year 2000. The music event Peace and Freedom will take place on International Women´s Day march 8th 2026 at PYGMÉ TEATERN. Vegagatan 17, Vasastan. Stockholm. Sweden. I got a 15 minutes slot playing live at 16:10 - 16:25. Full program presented soon.
I do not use ai. I film inside of a kaleidoscope, I have cut up a hole into, where I put plants, feathers and things from the forest. Collages are mostly from my grandfathers photomagazines from the fifties, he was a hobby photographer with a dark room inside a small toilet in their flat. They lived in a concrete tower block from the fifties in Norrköping. On floor 5 of 10. I got a lot of old paper magazines when my grandparents passed away. On which I cut, draw and stick together with photos I have been shooting in the forest. Old pictures ive taken with a EOS 5 Canon I had as young and with my cellphone. No filters but I work a lot with lamps and softbox. My grandmother was a homewife but made beautiful clothes and some of my paintings are made out from her design I kept from my grandmother´s collection in late 1930. Both paintings are placed as public art in The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Owner Statens Konstråd. Title; Costume in a square. Strong sense of Justice. In swedish: Kostym i kvadrat & Starkt rättsjag. The title of the blue circle is a quote by Sara Danius. Paintings made 2018. They are comments of maskuline and feminine powers in the society. She was a role model for me. And I loved the way Danius used clothes as a strong feminin voice. Technique here is home made egg oil Tempera on eco cotton.
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Winter Photos taken by me with a six month old baby hanging in a sling under my thick coat. December 2012 in Näsfjället, not far from Sälen in Sweden. I used a Canon 650 d. I tried to catch the Aurora but the green didn´t click on my focus. I got some beautiful light phenomena instead and in some videos the day after, it looks like we are under water. The pictures are wobbling in a funny way. I think it was the cold temperature that made the camera and cell phone act different. It was nearly - 4.0 F that winter. Branches with snow appeared as corals. It was magical.
In a process were we had to rely on chance, I believe digital advices speak to me, in the same way as everything really is temporary and in constant change. As life itself, I guess. My best artworks are mostly made out of accidental occurrence. Therefore I parallelly continue to have my heart closest analogue materials that (if treated well and with knowledge of the art material), can stay alive. Even in time of change, as corps becomes soil and ai perhaps makes a revolution that is beyond human choice and wisdom? Either ways, I love art that keeps us grounded and real but, I also find it mind-bending, in philosophical terms, that we can´t rely on what other people hear and see as ´true` on screens and through earpods. That observation opens up a sort of humbleness and questionability of what kind of value ground; truth and superior, simply lies on. And, in a Hegel kind of extension, also what spirituality is?
Digital technique that uses discrete valuation (binar codes 0 & 1) represents perhaps information that is more accurate of present time? Because it changes and reflects what is in the eye of the beholder. Right here and now. It becomes´ in its time being. Interesting but if data is connected through a machine that replace the content with an agenda that is not bounded to thing/space/time, we transform our understanding of this omni information in an extreme individualistic way. So it is collectivistic yet ultra lonely. Everything is bounded through meta and we need tools to organize and have conversation about our observations. Through myths, art, music, poetry, theatre.
Upgrades change photographs in the cloud data to make more space. Storage swap owners to make more money. Compatibility is bounded to commercial big companies. For example I can only open my Spotify on Chrome and not in Safari. And I´m sure its not a purpose but when binar information transfers, sometimes data crash. And with all that said we also know that fake news are connected with political interests. Everything that is connected with internet is inside of this organism, that is in a way comparable with being in a dark deep ocean. Vivid and light on the surface, cold and dark deep down. A total anarchy where coral reeves dies, sharks eats smaller fish and besides all that ´circle of life´ metaphorism, it is absolutely beautiful and full of myths.
Whilst analogue techniques reflects the room the thing as a beholder of its history. A subjective that, so to speak, extends with time. A space/material outside the spectator that relates in preposition towards impression. Art that is independent of internet, or digital advices, can so to speak bring art conversations into fields of another form of collaboration. Or if public; in another kind of communication. Because what we both see is probably different, yet the signals given to our eyes ears bodies through analogue materials are the same. If that makes sense?
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