2005 or mostly 2006
my way of working as I do today started after a trip to South Africa for
one months, to study the way of using recycling material in art, I hang around
whit this amazing and great “street people” on a pedestrian street near by Cape
Town, I learn how to use beads and everyday life material to create art. For me
this was a turning point in my art, but I have to sublime it into a Swedish
context and make it act in my environment. It was a happy and interesting and
very very nice time in my life and also for my artistry, I´m not sure that my
way of working and using material have been accepted in Sweden yet, but I know that
my aesthetics appreciates aboard and maybe that´s much better then to be a part
of a stripped white and clean aesthetic that Sweden and the Nordic countries
are known for?! I don´t know what´s the best, I am doing what I need to do and
what I like and that I have a quiet story to tell about the consumer society,
and I am doing it with plastic and color and an aesthetic that aren´t so common
in Sweden. To be curios and see what’s coming up if I mixed material and
objects interesting me a lot and I know for sure that if I use this kind of
everyday material I need to take care and lift in some leaves, I can´t just add
material together I need to use my knowledge as a silversmith to make my jewelry,
you can´t do a good work if you don´t have the skills.
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