• Tysta Väktare / Silent Guardians

    Tysta Väktare — Om längtan, närvaro och de osynliga följeslagare vi har glömt (In English below)  Kanske har du känt det någon gång — att du inte är helt ensam. En rörelse i utkanten av synfältet, en stillhet som nästan svarar, som om något ser tillbaka. En värld som en gång kändes levande Det fanns…

  • Mapping Hope Across Cultures

    Mapping Hope Across Cultures During Madrid’s Art Week (På svenska nedan) During the first week of March, Madrid becomes one of the world’s meeting places for contemporary art. As exhibitions, galleries and fairs unfold across the city, artists and visitors arrive from many countries, bringing with them different traditions, experiences and ways of seeing. Among…

  • Olympics Awarded Gold for a Painting / OS Delade ut Guld för en Målning

    (På Svenska Nedan) Stockholm, summer 1912. The stadium is filled with jubilation. Spectators rise as runners break through the finish line, white hats glinting in the sunlight, flags moving slowly in the warm air. Bodies are stretched to their limits, concentration dense as the summer heat above the stands. Here, the world is measured in…

  • When Objects Begin to Speak/ När föremål börjar tala

    A deep dive into still life (på svenska nedan) Still life is often described as quiet.But when you spend time with objects long enough, they begin to speak. This week’s work was not about capturing a moment, but about building one — arranging, waiting, adjusting light until something unseen settled into place. The image emerges…

  • Seeing More Slowly /  Att Se med Långsamhet

    Seeing More Slowly — On Photography, Time, and Image Analysis (På Svenska Nedan) I am currently attending a photography program, not primarily to learn how to take better photographs, but to rediscover how to see. Under the guidance of photographer Robert Wållberg, we are encouraged to approach photography more consciously — exploring composition, light, atmosphere,…

  • Mapping Hope – as a Practice, Not a Promise

    Art, AI, and Human Agency in Times of Uncertainty Hope is often misunderstood. We tend to speak about hope as something that belongs to the future — something that will arrive when uncertainty disappears, when problems are solved, when clarity returns. Hope becomes a reward waiting at the end of difficulty. But the world we…

  • Pax Tecum — On Hope, Presence, and Connection

    Pax Tecum — On Hope, Presence, and the Quiet Architecture of Connection (På svenska nedan) We live in a time saturated with forecasts.Dashboards measure risk, reports map uncertainty, and scenarios multiply faster than our capacity to absorb them. Yet what many people describe as missing is not information — but orientation. A sense of where we…

  • Santa & Unanswered Questions /Tomten & obesvarade frågor

    (på svenska nedan) Santa and the Unanswered Questions of Life A Nordic reflection on trust, guardianship, and the invisible forces that sustain us.Inspired by an earlier post, “The Trusted Tomten – a background check” “The midwinter cold is hard,the stars glitter and gleam.All are asleep on the lonely farm,deep in the midnight hour.The moon follows its…

  • The Lived Time / Den Levda Tiden

    (På Svenska nedan)  2025 in Reflection, 2026 as Practice This is the time of year when many of us pause to reflect on time itself — and on the year that has passed. I do so with gratitude for the experiences and learnings that 2025 has carried with it. Yet time is rarely experienced as…

  • En gåva av närvaro – A Gift of Presence

    När konsten blir en gåva av närvaro (In English below) När året går mot sina stillsammare dagar söker vi ofta gåvor som sträcker sig bortom det dekorativa och det nya. Gåvor som bär mening. Gåvor man kan leva med, återvända till och låta veckla ut sig varsamt över tid. En gåva av närvaro är inte…