Artist Statement

My work emerges through entangled collaboration with spectral, material, and more-than-human forces. I listen to dreams, pigments, decaying landscapes, and ancestral presences as co-creators in the process. Working across monochrome oil painting and alternative photography—cyanotype, phytograms, and chance-based film—as well as moving image, sound, and poetry, I explore how absence generates presence and how ecological grief can become a portal for transformation.

I work with materials that carry their own agency: wildfire ash, limestone from sacred sites, algae from dead zones, windblown debris, light, water, and earth. Surfaces often read as textured though they are smooth, deepening the field through vibration and value rather than contrast. Each artwork arises through a relational choreography with time, place, and the unseen. I do not impose form—I attune to what wishes to emerge.

Art is my spirituality; I draw from mysticism, shamanism, ancestral memory, and expanded perception. My Sámi ancestry—hidden for generations in Southern Norway—reemerges in dreams of snow, spirit, and land that shape my practice.

I understand art as a threshold: a space where what is vanishing might still speak. Through sustainable methods and devotional process, I create visual languages that hold disappearance, haunting, and the resilience of the Earth.

Honors and Awards

2025
* Highly Commended Artist, Homiens Art Prize (Summer 2025)
* Artist of Merit Award, Monochromica, Issue 004

Publications

2025
* Dark Mountain: Issue 28 – Uncivilised Art (Autumn 2025)
* Monochromica: The Journal of Monochrome Art – Issues 004, 005, 006
2022
* Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere, Stanford – Action Art for a Dying World