THE END and a new beginning

In August 2008 I started to make two masks in my workshop in Kungalv, Sweden. That was the start of an incredible journey of two masks around the Scandinavian countries. The masks has on their way visited dancers as Ami, Anna and Skanes Dansteater , actors as Asa in Sweden, Hanne and Kjetil in Norway and Gunnva on the Faeroic Islands, mime actors as Jimmy, composers as Staffan, Authors and Filmmakers as Petra, Visual Artists as Nils. Tis has been a remarkable journey and the different expressions and stories the masks has been inspiring to is wonderful. I am so grateful to all of you and all your contributions. What you all have created is something very unique and rare. This document on the travels of the masks throughout 2009 is a document on inspiration and contains so many different stories. Now I am in the work of trying to make them all justice somehow. I hope they will be edited into a great book of inspiration, and also an exhibition about the journey of the masks. Possibly the exhibition will become a touring one, visiting many different galleries. I will come back to you all about the plans for this.

Well.. I have 150 pages of blogtext and photos, films and more. It's a unique document that deserves to be published somehow.

I got the chance to visit the final show of the Skanes Dance theatre´s production "Face it" - the first half of the show was the choreographies from the different dancers connected o this project. I was stunned and deeply moved... to see the work from these extremelly great dancers and to see how they had been inspired in different ways from my masks. I felt very moved and honored. It also became a source to look back for me on this last year... through these dancers and the companies beautiful production based on the masks of mine I also got to see all the other things you all have contributed throughout this last year. The work of you all that have made me feel so humble and honored. I can't enough say how much I appreciate all the things everyone has contributed. I can only with great humbleness say thank you all. What you all have done is to create a very special and unique document on inspiration and you have all created stories , stories that will somehow be told again and be even further spread.

Thank you all from the bottom of my heart !

The end is always a beginning.... The project ended last saturday, but why let the masks end up on a wall? They are meant to travel.. so now they will leave for another journey. The first part will be a tour in USA.... until now 4 different artists will host them, and possibly there will be more. So keep on making visits to this page... the journey will go on, perhaps for ever.. Who knows where they will go !