Running naked
For more than a decade now I have had a penchant for running naked, neither padding my feet with unnecessary shock absorption nor diverting my attention with gadgets, music, running apps or tracking....
On Saturday the 2nd and Sunday the 3rd of September, I, together with 80 other local artists will hold an open studio. You will be able to see a number of my finished works, and perhaps interestingly also a number of my works in progress....
It can be a really good exercise to talk to yourself as you would to a good friend. In fact, it's crazy that we often talk to ourselves in ways we would never talk to a good friend. Not least when the world turns completely crazy there is every good reason to give yourself some love and kindness....
It is not every day that you read a book where neither the topic nor the format can be completely defined as you are used to; where not a single word seems redundant, but the sentences has the character of exactly what the author writes on page one: an invitation to further inquiry....
What to do? Get our hopes up and give the climate negotiations our attention? Believe that even tiny symbolic steps in the right direction can make a difference in the long term? Or simply turn off the news stream and direct our attention elsewhere?...
Imagine your future success and make up a narrative that is so powerful and appealing that you inevitably end up tweaking your habits and your choices accordingly. In my eyes this is how to best create the change you want to see; in your own life as well as in the world....
What happens if you don't dare to start making your art until the sun, moon and stars are perfectly aligned? What happens if you never come to terms with the fact that your shit will never be perfect? Honestly? Nothing. Nothing ever happens and then suddenly one day it'll be too late....
Many will probably think that being a successful creative is something that depends on an end product and the response of the outside world. However, I will claim that being a successful creative has everything to do with the process and less with the outcome....
Everything comes with a price tag. We often end up chasing financial succes, imagining that it will eventually make us able to buy more freedom. But maybe real freedom is not freedom through money, but rather freedom from money?...
In an interview for this year's White Sands magazine, I was asked the other day if I had a mission. My immediate answer was a reserved ". . . no, not really."...
Practice makes—as the saying goes—perfect, and it goes without saying that the things we prioritize on a daily basis also happen to be the things we end up mastering the most. The things that define us....
We all know it way too well: We really ought to disconnect ourselves and our devices and practice what we preach: sit down with a notebook or a Spacepen, or go to the studio and go all in....
The good life
Life is so short, and still there is so much we want to do and so much we want to achieve. For inspiration, a set of guidelines I use every day myself as tools to maintain direction and focus....
Don't buy, and don't buy into everything: the stories you tell yourself create your reality and expand (or narrows) your world. Do...
A recommendation that we all stand up against the culture of perfection, and instead of only posting the beautiful, staged pictures, also dare to stand by our ugly moments, the errors and mistakes, and show our reality without a filter....