💙 Blue – Color from plants as Intelligence in Art and Science collaboration

Woad, Vejde (Isatis tinctoria) is not just a pigment—it reveals, transforms, remembers—an ancient medicinal plant, once sacred, giving blue and carrying a long history.

In an art and science collaboration with Professor Jonas Bergquist at Uppsala University, I explored the plant Woad and its role in biomedicine—not as a passive substance, but as a material intelligence, alive in process, unfolding in time.

🔹 Visualizing cell structures—revealing what is unseen.
🔹 Interacting with protein aggregations linked to Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.
🔹 Functioning as biodegradable, antibacterial sutures—offering a living alternative to synthetic pigments in medicine.

This work was exhibited at the Innovation Exhibition at Ekocentrum in Gothenburg in 2015 and 2016—a space for emerging ideas at the intersection of sustainability, art, science, and material intelligence.

It was of huge interest, yet too early. As a woman navigating these systems, it was challenging—but exciting. Patents were impossible—it was too complex.
The structures that separate art, science, medicine, and materials were not yet ready for what was emerging.

When art and science meet with empathy, real change can happen.
I returned to my work with color, to process, to the ways materials think, heal, and remember.

💙 If this resonates with you, or if you’re interested in these ideas—let’s talk. If you are drawn to this work and want to explore its deeper implications, I invite you to connect with me.