My research work delves into the interplay between colours and fibres derived from plants, and water, which possess the ability to resonate and communicate with the living world, with our perception, sensuality, beauty, and the changeability in nature and life in the Anthropocene. 

I am intrigued by the poetic and sensual interconnected state that exhibits variability among colour, plants, humans and more than humans, microbial organisms, dyeing processes and ancient techniques, history and fibres, ecosystem, rituals and our collective memory of colour, plants, and textiles. And so, my work also encompasses narratives about, cultural norms, the qualities of water, soil, plants, growing and food as well as the importance of gradual processes of colour (natural dye) and fermentation processes of textile and food. Food, natural dye and textiles are very closely linked, and water in all forms is the most fundamental in all my work, we are all water. I am working with the multi-sensory aspect because everything is interconnected. Not separated into different entities.  I am deeply involved in plants and plant colours and their philosophical, physiological, biological, physical, medical, and aesthetic facets and the history and culture of plants and natural Dye. I work with deep roots in eco-philosophy, experimentalism, phenomenology, and morphology and merge ancient knowledge with the contemporary, social-cultural together with art and science in projects that blur and break the traditional boundaries of disciplines. For me, textiles and art connect cultures and foster peace, diversity and care.

The focal point of my artistic endeavours centres on the extensive research work I do on plants, their medical properties, health benefits, folklore, their colours and growth. I am researching plant properties and looking into their culture, colonisation and rights related to holistic medical, scientific and ancient knowledge, I am interested in the natural dyeing process as a contemporary art practice and in bringing awareness of nature’s spirituality and colour as a living matter. There has been a suppression of knowledge of the healing properties and use of plants, colour and textiles. 

My work process is like life itself – as an open flow, a process of genesis, impossible to define in separate pieces. Working with the natural world is a reminder of nature’s time, schedules and the dynamics of life and human ecology. Our bodies consist largely of living organisms that our lives rely on; micro- macro; life as an open flow, impossible to separate into individual pieces as man, as animal and body, a dependent system. In my work, I pursue the dissolving borders between mind and body, culture and nature, human and nonhuman – experience and disciplines. I work with the mysterious phenomena in nature and take advantage of living organic systems that give colours and echoes of a life process and an aspect of our fragile ecosystems. I have focused for nearly 20 years on Woad and Indigo and using of microbes. 

I grew up in the deep forests of Sweden in the Nordic hemisphere and I am deeply rooted in eco-philosophy with my ancestors. I was born in the cultural textile town Borås and grew up surrounded by its rich textile history. I had the textile needle in my hand as soon I could sitt. I come from families with long textile traditions of weavers and spinners who grew up along the river Viskan. My ancestors on my mum’s side were Statare, (a “statare”)  a married, poor farm labourer, who didn’t own any property, and possessed no land, animals, or livestock. The “statare” were partly receiving allowance – payment in kind), and later some of them worked in the Textile industry in Borås and Sjuhäradsbygden.

I lived and travelled extensively the world, in countries like Pakistan, Egypt, etc. and later I also became part of the southern hemisphere – Aotearoa (New Zealand). My artistic work has taken me to many places in the world and I have participated in various artistic interdisciplinary and multi-cultural projects, exhibitions, Artist in Residency and conferences on plants, natural dyeing, ecology, water, environment e.g. Madagascar. Taiwan, Malaysia, Laos, India, Kenya and France. I am also a co-author of books and articles.

 I hold lectures, and workshops and create school and social projects, and I collaborate with people from within different facilities all around the world.

Interdisciplinary is essential for the creation of imagination, ecological wisdom and change and so are experimentalism, poetry, morphology, phenomenology,  ecofeminism, and new materialism, all towards biodiversity and interconnectedness of life.