Teewee

I have grown up in the proximity of art. Many of my earliest memories with my extended family take place at my aunt's different exhibitions where I wide-eyed ate pretzel sticks and marveled at things I couldn’t understand. My parents must have noticed this wonder in me and organized small exhibitions for the pieces I brought home from art-class at the end of term in elementary school. I however had a hard time identifying with art, from an early age I had decided to be a scientist, an engineer and an inventor and in my immature mind this was in direct conflict with the freer nature of art. Hence it took me a long time to gather the courage to create art of my own, to be an artist, a title I even now at the time of my first solo exhibition wear with some discomfort.

16:47 the twelfth of October 2019 something changed in me though. I had just mounted mirrors on a pair of weird metal plates in the Bergshamra subway station and realized that they had become something greater than I had expected. Under the title “Sju års lycka” these unassuming IKEA mirrors became art and the reactions from some strangers on social media transformed me into an artist. That SL made a different interpretation and called the mirrors littering and me a vandal didn’t bother me at this point. For me the pieces had just fallen into place and the line that kept me the engineer from me the artist had vanished leaving a more complete I with a whole new universe to explore.

Welcome into a part of this exploration where I, with the tools at my disposal ― code, solder and 3d-rendering ― try to explore objects and thoughts that interest and amuse me. Through this I hope to repay some of the wide-eyedness I was blessed with as a kid to you the visitor.