You Always Find Another Womb to Grow, 2025

Watercolors, colored pencils, and ink on paper

14 x 21 cm 

Project: Foreign Object, 2026

Foreign Object began with a recurring form that appeared in my dreams and nightmares. I record these forms through a working method I call Sleeping as a Method, in which visual material connected to war trauma is drawn and later developed into paintings and sculptures.

In this project, a dark, pyramid-shaped form appears repeatedly within Nordic landscapes. It is placed beside frozen lakes, open fields, and winter forests. These landscapes are recognizable, but the form changes their spatial order. It is present in the landscape without becoming continuous with it.

The project asks what makes an object appear foreign to a place. The form is not foreign because of an inherent quality. It becomes foreign through its relation to its surroundings, and through the expectation that it should adapt, merge, or become familiar.

By keeping the form distinct, the work approaches alienation as a spatial condition. It considers how a person or object can inhabit a place while remaining visibly different from what already appears to belong there.

Supported by the City of Gothenburg.