Decades navigating the shifting terrains of freelance work—illustration, design, books, vinyl covers, digital surfaces, folded messages, posters. A world meandering threading form and function.
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 couldn’t stay in one lane in one furrow, found my way forward as chamelion illustrator.
Hand, insight, spirit became path. Curiosity joined devotion 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 what it entails.
WORDS
Starting my design education, mainly visual arts; a dear friend later radio journalist, inspired me onto the parallell journey discovering The Word. Mere tops of icebergs of underlying intricate connections to related associations. Etymology and meaning became a genious 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 often mistakened for thought. We think with what’s beyond the words. The Concepts, Ideas, Stories, the Narratives.
Led to my life long interest in the realms of human consciousness.
To be continued..