Work Type: Installation

The Sun Mountain is a commissioned work for Solberga outside of Stockholm. The commission came about after my work with the public commission Time to stay which was made in the same area. The Sun Mountain consists in a big stone and a pear-tree. The shadow of the pear-tree has been sandblasted into the surface of the stone. The stone was found and saved when new houses in the area of Solberga were built.

Nine site-specific sentences have been sandblasted into the built environment at various locations in the residential area Vallastaden, Linköping. The sentences address people moving in the area, while walking on the sidewalk, crossing a corner or looking over a railing. The main character in the texts is the reader themselves in relation to their own posture, the surrounding nature and the bypassing moment.

Pictured sentences:

my curiosity | around the next corner | led me further

I moved closer to the maple | in the direction of the text | towards City Gross | Kaliningrad | Damascus

there | against the wall | I had to bend down | to read on

I could have stepped on them | but read the words | neck facing the sky

if the light were to fall against the letters | my shadow on the ground | underneath would be darkness, roots, earth

Time to stay is a commissioned work for Rubinvägen outside of Stockholm. The work relates to the changing cityscape and population by discussing time, circulation and traces. The work consists in three parts: Then, Now and Soon. The oak is a central element in all three parts. The work was conducted in collaboration with residents in the area and actively involves the residents aswell as the visitors of the area through their everyday movements.

Then is a number of marks after the bigger trees that grew around Rubinvägen before new houses were built in the area. The annual rings after each tree has been sandblasted into the limestone of the new houses’ entrance halls. On new walking paths the circumference of the trees have been marked through carriage bolts hammered into the asphalt.

Now are seating marks in park benches. The residents in the area have contributed to the work by leaving their seating marks. 14 of these have been cut out in oak and made as intarsia into the pinewood benches. The wood of the benches has been impregnated with an organic method which make the wood age naturally.

Soon is a big oak that has been planted in the area. Some big trees were taken down when the new houses in the area were built. I saved oak corns from the area and let them grow to plants. At the inauguration of the work, the residents were invited to make a common planting of 12 of the plants, in order to let a new oak grow in the area. An oak is said to grow for 300 years, live for 300 years and die for 300 years.

Postcards from Gränby was a site-specific, temporary installation commissioned by Uppsala municipality in Sweden. The work consisted in five signs placed in the nature surrounding a big shopping mall. Just next to the shopping mall are fields and pastures and one of Swedens oldest churches.  At the time of the installation, the area was undergoing major change – there were plans for a new residential area, an arena and more.