About
I am intrigued by the eco-poetic and sensuous state of entanglement that unfolds between plants, light, humans and more-than-human life — microbial worlds, colour processes, fibres, water and collective memory. Our extended mind and embodiment reveal how we are all intertwined within the ecosphere and the essence of our ecological reality.
My research is grounded in deep and extensive investigation — experimental, embodied, literary, archival and historical, into plants, water, colour, methods, colonisation and rights connected to holistic medical, scientific and historical knowledge. Through this I seek to reach complex processes that move beyond our current systems of thought.I understand these processes as part of a living, predictive ecology — where colour and microbes, water and fibre, think together through change.
“I view plants and seaweed as powerful entities, living beings with their own will and intelligence. Water, too, holds its own memory; they are partners in a profound and reciprocal dialogue.”
I delve into each plant, its medicinal properties and slow fermentation processes for colour and food, exploring how plants and microbes communicate with us in somatic and intelligent ways that sustain and share.
This forms an intimate link to our ecological heritage, to rituals of cultivation and care.
I work with botanical matter as an artistic material, not as a resource. My focus lies in human and non-human interconnectedness and in revealing new narratives through which we can imagine and embrace an ecological future.
Sensory systems integrate experiences of our existential encounter with the world, bringing us the truth and the magic of the world into our breath.
My work
My work follows the slow metabolism of colour, fibre, and water.
Processes unfold, ferment, bind with salt, compress, expand, changeable always in change. To work with colour, fibre, and water is to engage with their biochemical intelligence and embodied transformation.
Water acts as a living medium, a biochemical field in which pigments, microbes, minerals and fibres interact, oxidise and remember. There is no separation between my body, the materials, and the world, a somatic field of shared pressures, somatic exchanges, and shifting states of light.
My process moves where transformation slips from my hands, taken over by the materials, by their fascial and chemical intelligence, by the slow transmissions between body, fibre, and water, — a living biosemiotics of colour.
I propose that we reclaim the entangled colours of light and reimagine our relation to the phenomena of colour, to the hues of the atmosphere and to our collective memory of the ocean’s prismatic blue depths.
We are becoming, unfolding, transfiguring. We are all part of the same orchestra, the flowers of photosynthesis. Biosemiotics of Colour, Fermentation, Memory, and the Ethics of Matter. Between Chemistry and Consciousness.
COLOUR, FERMENTATION, AND TIME
For nearly twenty years I have focused on woad and indigo, working with living fermentation processes as both biological systems and artistic language.Through microbes, colour becomes a living agent, transforming matter, echoing the fragile balance of ecosystems, and revealing time as chemistry. Water carries biochemical knowledge, of us and our surroundings, a living intelligence that mediates transformation, memory, and perception.
For nearly twenty years I have focused on woad and indigo, working with living fermentation processes as both biological systems and artistic language.
Through microbes, colour becomes a living agent, transforming matter, echoing the fragile balance of ecosystems, and revealing time as chemistry. Water carries biochemical knowledge, of us and our surroundings, a living intelligence that mediates transformation, memory, and perception.
My own experience of living with a parasite altered my understanding of what it means to be a body, porous, inhabited, in constant biochemical exchange with other forms of life. This embodied symbiosis deepened my relation to microbial and biochemical processes, where art, ecology, fibre, colour, textile and consciousness are inseparable.
GENEALOGIES AND PLACE
I grew up in the deep forests of Sweden and was born in the textile town of Borås. I come from generations of weavers and spinners who lived along the river Viskan. My ancestors on my mother’s side were statare poor tenant farm workers, later textile labourers in Borås and Sjuhäradsbygden. These genealogies of labour, water, and fibre continue through my work.
COLLABORATIONS AND CONTEXTS
I have lived and travelled widely, in Pakistan, Egypt, Aotearoa (New Zealand), Madagascar, Taiwan, Malaysia, Laos, India, Kenya and France, collaborating with scientists, artists, and communities all around the world.
Interdisciplinarity remains essential to my practice: the meeting of experimentalism, poetry, phenomenology, and new materialism as ways to cultivate imagination, ecological insight, and transformation, all directed toward biodiversity and the interconnectedness of life.