The first task I was given as a student in my arts and crafts studies was to use paper to make a head creation. I immediately wanted to make an old-fashioned, traditional bridal crown from the area I grew up in. These are large crowns with beautiful, small details...
Our encounters with sounds are fleeting, temporal. Sounds come and go almost instantly and they never come back. Even recorded sounds played by different people in different contexts are something else. Become something else. I always had the feeling though that they...
The land I walk with: The Gravel Pit (Helene Illeris, 2020)The land I walk with: Jegersberg. (Tormod W. Anundsen, 2019)Background Module 2: The purpose of the readings and task for module 2 is to move further into ways of experiencing human involvement with – and...
I try to remake worlds by "displaying" them aurally. Part of it is about the nostalgia boom in pop culture, part of it is just my curiosity about sonic memories. My remade worlds can sometimes be described as music. I'll add something to it in the future but I don't...
Soul Connection As you read this, please picture the most beautiful/interesting movements you can imagine. It makes the story better. Otherwise, I just seem like a crazy person. If you think that is more fun, feel free. Usually, in my dance practice, my starting...
As a teacher at high school, my everyday work is to use my imagination so as to make the topics that we discuss in class more interesting and comprehensible by the students. The work of a teacher is , as I use to say, a “full time job”, because nothing only begins or...
Home is belonging. My body is my home, and first I belong to myself. A sense of belonging with others and with the surroundings.
Home is acceptance, free to be who you are, allowed to set boundaries, make choices, and be super silly.
Home is safe, the feeling of tension releasing as you enter a place, or a state, or a group, that feels like home.
Home is cozy, a place to relax, seek refuge with soft warm light.
Home is where I belong, and I can invite others to visit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnVEzb8miXs I remember making this road trip with my mother on a summer day last year. At the time, I don't remember what made me want to film, perhaps to imbue myself with that energy that places give off and that resonates within us...
One of the states that makes me feel “home” is when I’m with my puppies — Oberyn and Elia (fans of the Game of Thrones would get this :p). They are German Shepherd and Huskie mixes, they are siblings, and they will be turning 4 years old on Halloween this year (yup,...
When I started thinking about home the first place I thought of was a church sanctuary. I am not religious anymore but the countless Sundays that I spent playing around my home church in San Diego created a sense of home. Since moving away it is a place that I know I...