2018 | Single channel video installation | 5:08 minutes
My heritage comes from Sweden.
The sonorous calls that are sometimes heard in the Swedish highlands are known locally as ‘Kulning’. These high-pitched vocalizations are uttered by mountain women to heard cattle, scare away bears and communicate to one another at long distances. In this work I have drawn on these cries of my ancestors to create a ‘studio mountain’. The metaphor of long distance communication is intended as an expression of my overall practice – calling into the void such that a response may or may not be received. I could say that it also is an abstract gesture of materials that l use when creating my work - voice and breath, restrained movement, ink, walls, space and white light.