Decades navigating the shifting terrains of freelance work—illustration, design, books, vinyl covers, digital surfaces, folded messages, posters. A world meandering threading form function and aesthetics.
Master of Fine Arts from HDK Gothenburg in Graphic Design and Advertising. Former exchange technician Swedish telephone company; telephony, circuitry, signal, paths among humming wires. Technical interest met the Aesthetics. Hand met the Soul. Thinking met the Practical. Very early I couldn’t stay in one lane in one furrow, found my way forward as chamelion illustrator.
Hand, insight, spirit became path. Curiosity joined devotion in every assignment.
Later realizing I had caught on to the old Renaissance idea on beauty. Beauty seen as guide to better human and society. Harmony, proportion, balance—ideals rooted in nature and reason, uniting the sensual and the spiritual. Beauty fostering, educating the soul. Ideals rooted in nature..
Time expanded wanderings into realms in and beyond psychology, perception, archaeology, the history of ideas, sociology, consciousness and the unconscious, music, ancient Egypt and Greece, philosophy, the body, brain research, biomimicry, origins of language, symbols, nature of light, semiology, in and to more focused into areas, interests circling consciousness, the unconscious, language, mythology, image, technology in the human world with all what it entails.
WORDS
Starting my design education, mainly visual arts; a dear friend later radio journalist, inspired me onto a parallell journey discovering The Word. Mere tops of icebergs of underlying abundant connections and associations. Etymology and meaning became a genius companian for my further investigation into realms not known to me then. Words, their ubiqiutos omnipresence and obvious necessity for culture and human society delved into symbols meaning and concepts. Words, the lables, often mistakened for thought. We think with what’s beyond the words. We think by means of Concepts, Ideas, Stories, Narratives.
Led to my life long interest in the realms of human consciousness.
To be continued..