A tiny figure encapsulated in a clear, crumpled silicone skin on top of a glossy green form

A miniature bride and groom standing in a hollow of a grey-green, stone-like mass

A tiny figure standing on top of a white column wound with blue wire

Four translucent white domes on a mirror, with tiny figures on two of them

A translucent sphere with a tiny figure visible inside

A tiny figure leaning against a pale, shell-like form on top of a white dome

A flat, pale organic form with embedded objects: a curled white shape, yellow sponge-like material and dark fragments

A pale, egg-like mound wrapped in strands of hair, on a flat base with honeycomb wax and small objects

A round ball of dense hair on a white surface

Sculpture of honeycomb wax sheets, translucent forms and small colourful objects

Stacked translucent discs with a knobbly shape on top and a clear sphere holding colourful fragments

A brain-like mass of pale coils under an amber layer, with tiny objects tangled in white string on top

Embryo: a translucent silicone disc against a blue sky, with fine brown threads spreading from its centre

Embryo: a translucent silicone disc against a blue sky, with a small feather inside

Embryo: a translucent silicone disc held up against the sun, with a tree-like pattern of threads inside

A wasp sitting on the rim of an orange, bowl-shaped object filled with hair

Two pale, elongated objects hanging on wires, each lit from inside by a blue LED

Many small, pointed clay forms standing on a wooden floor, work in progress

LIVSPIRAL 3: a spiral of many small blue-and-white sculpted pieces laid out on a round glass plate

bacteria

Objects mixed material 2015-2022

"With great precision, I select significant objects/materials that possess a certain charge and build further upon them in compositions hybrids of found objects and creations using, among other things, DNA-bearing material from family, such as hair, nails, and chewing gum. This can lead to new encounters with multiple layers and contexts finding meeting points where past and present converge in my objects." I have been working with questions such as when life begins/ends, when life transitions into death, what is life/non-life, or if it is a constantly ongoing process? I am exploring the conditions for the beginning of life, which has led to a deeper dive into DNA and bacteria. Everything goes back to the progenote and life has probably come into existence just once. Bacteria is one of three domains which all cell-based life on earth is divided into. We, the humans, consist of a combination of 2 bacteria. 3,5 billion years old fossilized cyano bacteria (bluegreen algae) is the oldest proof of life and they enabled the start for the evolution of life on earth. Most of them are unicelled but several form colonies which often are surrounded by a common jelly catch. Some species of bacteria secrete mucus which they spin along upon, a material which is present at crucial life situations; procreation, birth and death. According to the humorism of ancient time, mucus is one of the four Hippocratic body fluids."

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