Valse lente

Bachelor work 2014 at Academy of Design & Crafts in Gothenburg.

The project resulted in the Eric Ericsons scholarship of 90.000 SEK.

I drew lines and I wrote ‘As wire they grew out of the two dimensional. I did not know about these rooms.’ I dip paper in porcelain, and dwell on paper piles of concern. Because I found the characteristics of porcelain and wanted to know more...
— Lena's thesis about the Valse Lente project
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...White, mat and chalky. Fragile and innocent. Brittle. So close to breaking. As life is fragile and close. As life is beautiful. As my life is beautiful. Next to the dark. I make a construction, a protection for the fragile object...
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...With a line that does not hide but cooperate. Like the shadow. So, when time has gone by and things has broken, something remains.
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