The Sitting

2006-2007

 

Shave head  - sit down in central Stockholm rush hour for one year.

 

The impulse for “ the sitting”
came out of the project “a walking piece”.

Even though the walk is very much an interior process,
the  motivating factor is in the meeting with the outside,

the change in the surroundings, the history and memory of the places and people you meet.

During the process, it became very clear to me
that my experience was a reflection
of my thoughts and attitudes,
rather than what my senses registered.

I became interested in the use of my own body as the tool for looking at these processes,
inner outer, stillness/movement etc.

I wanted to “peel off ” the  spectacular/exotic ingredients
from “the walking piece” ( the physical, foreign),
to  simplify it, towards something more subtle,
and move the focus away from my own body and try to become more

like a mirror where the spectator/passerby see themselves in this figure.