09/10/2025
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But you’re an artist, my doctor said. Couldn’t you process your emotions through your art?
No, period, I said.
Yet, the question lingered in my mind. What does it mean to process emotions through art, and what forms might this take? Therapeutic storytelling, solace and catharsis through free form? Or is it more a matter of working your way through it? Shaping, lifting, carrying, learning, measuring, cutting, milling, thinking, screwing, sweating, constructing, constructing, constructing.
The wooden sculptures are created based on contours traced from photographs of people, animals and places that I love. Viewed from certain angles, these shapes appear in the sculptures and the shadows they cast, from other angles they dissolve.
The leftover materials are cut into firewood - to create a fire to gather around outside , where the sculptures, titled Bunden form/Bound Form, are on view in the exhibition until January 4th 2026.
It’s been such a privilege working on this. First, the making of the works together with my husband Arne Skaug Olsen and Soheil Hivad Nabi at in Bergen. Then, the collaboration with the wonderful people at Trondheim Kunstmuseum. And last but not least, co-exhibiting with the brilliant , and .
