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This is paradise to me

June 1st, 2008

Text from my press release: The last few years I have been working with interactivity. Lights, motors, sensors and electronics are the materials trough which I aim to change the room. By using playfulness I tempt the viewer into a fantasy world. I, myself, am seduced by the materials I work with and the products that arise from the process are meant to seduce others.

In the exhibition” This is paradise to me “the starting point has been to re-create the feeling of total happiness. A state of mind that perhaps can only be reached trough cresendos in our existens, an orgasm, or other highs of happiness that make your whole body warm. How does one hang on to this feeling without beeing devistated when the feeling is not present? Would one want to have these tops all the time? Because happiness can be seen as a chemical reaction in our bodies, made aware by man, everybody can make and define their own happiness. There are people that make a paradise of the present and there are those that will always try to reach something else, an undefined happiness.


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