Be it in sculptures or in paintings, I try to capture something volatile; a moment, a motion or an atmosphere, in what I express. A core characteristic in my work is the use of paper, either in two or three dimensions. Ever since my childhood, I’ve easily been inspired by nature, nourishing my imagination by the shape of a cloud, a wooden piece or rim on the ground.

As a teenager the fascination for paper awoke. Its lightness and frailty, at the same time as it can obtain such a conderable strength, opens up for a wide range of variety in creating. Paper was first created by the initiative and the energy of humans using vegetable fibers, and later on by machines. It expresses something solely by its own structure and texture.

For centuries paper has been used to tell stories, shared between people and cultures. I often use newspapers in my work. These pages and stories are normally meant to last for a short moment, often only one day. Integrated in a sculpture or painting, they continue their life in a new context. I particularly find this interesting and of importance in our time, where a big part of our communication is digital and enormous, and often not that easy to keep track of. I wonder about how the accessibility of paper will be in… let’s say 20 years?

Often I do combine paper and driftwood/roots in my sculptures, two materials somehow of common origin. The wood is shaped by the energy of nature, wind, water, temperature and time. Paper shaped by humans and machines, also using energy, water, temperature and time. I like uniting these materials into a new shape, which otherwise would have returned to nature leaving no trace. Like in life in general, the final expression is not given from the beginning, only implied, and each piece is unique.

I like reconnecting paper with nature to bring forth a new shape, and tell a new story.

Clay is my other passion. The touch of the material, the earth we come from, pleases me a lot. I easily get absorbed by the process, and the feeling of "here and now" it brings me. That people everywhere, and throughout time, have been carrying out this very activity to express themselves, fascinates me.