Q: Tell us a bit about your process and what environment you like to work in?

A: Most of the materials I use are found on the streets, in garbage rooms and containers. I hoard materials and stack it in my studio. Lately I’ve been collecting driftwood and pieces of glass from the beach, I don’t know what to make of it yet but I get ideas while working and make fast sketches so I can go from one thing to another and keep things moving. I usually have two or three works going on at the time, in that way I can jump straight in to something else if I get tired of what I’m currently working on. I work in my studio with all the wood related stuff and most of the painting that I do, it’s nice to be able to throw things around and make a mess while figuring things out. At home I do embroidery, drawings and things that arent as messy, I like to move between those modes. I love to work outside too.

Q: What is your chosen medium and your techniques?

A: Mostly wood and trying out different techniques with that, but anything that I can get my hands on that seems interesting really. In the beginning of a process I usually turn to the big pile of scrap wood I have in one of the corners of my studio. A lot of times I cut up loads of cubes and shapes, then I glue them on to a bigger structure or a flat surface, pretty much like mosaic but with wood. With time that pile has grown and contains a lot of rests and broken pieces from earlier works. For instance when I saw out a shape I throw away the bits that I wont use, and later on I can re-use those negative shapes that I weren’t aware of making in the first place. It takes my works in directions I didn’t plan for, wich is nice cause it’s really easy to get stuck in your own ways at times.

Q: How much time and effort goes into each art piece?

A: It’s very different. I try to combine works that takes months with things that I can do in a couple of days, or just over a night sometimes. When I realize after getting started on a piece that it’s gonna take forever to finish, I start out some less time requried and easy going things to work with on the side.

Q: What or who were your early influences and do you believe your upbringing influenced your work?

A: It definately did. I think I’m influenced by all of my family and friends growing up. I was exploring what everyone did and how they did it and then picked raisins from the cake until I figured out what I wanted to do myself. From decorating birthday cakes with strawberries to watching my dad make hockeypucks with “snusdosor” and black cabletape. I was really into the shapes and the symmetry of shields as a kid, especially the one that I put my medals on after learning how to swim in school. And I loved the NHL logos and how the hockey trading cards looked in the 90’s. I was more into how it looked than the sport itself, there was alot of shields and symmetry in the logos and great color combinations on the cards and on the hockey gear. I also had a thing about placing stuff in our house in perfect angles, like tv remotes and VHS tapes. I used Paint a lot on our computer, making outlines and then using the bucket tool to fill out empty areas. Those are some early memories that influenced me. And over all skateboarding and music.

Q: What currently inspires you?

A: What drives me the most is to find out whats next, so I have to keep working all the time in order to find out. And even if I make some works that I’m not satisfied with it doesn’t matter beacause they will still take me to where I need to go. So I need to figure out what I don’t want to do to be able to find out what to do. I’m just inspired by that thought. I’m inspired by going with whatever idea that comes to mind, it’s easy to overthink things so try to challange myself with that, do first and think later.

Q: What piece of material or tool could you not manage without?

A: Wood glue.

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