Ångsågen

What we have here are the remains of a steam powered saw mill, “Ångsågsverk” in Swedish. It was constructed in the late 1800s as one of the first businesses to be established in the community in northern Uppland where it's located. Besides sawing there was a carpentry shop as well as power planers.

During the mill's life the Swedish pavilion for the 1929 World Exhibition in Barcelona was manufactured here. The pavilion's quirky tower (in fact a kind of beacon) was constructed in modules, then shipped to Barcelona and mounted on location. Later on, quite possibly after steam had gone out of fashion, a small scale manufacturing of wood products took place here. Likely in the the workshop building. Among the products were wooden Venetian blinds.

... Golden Tiger

I met with multi-artist Anna-Karin Svedjestrand at Galleri Mellanrum in December 2018 when we were both part of the autumn exhibition there. I fell for her paintings that she used as a backdrop for her performance and she liked my wall paper work on display. Soon a deal was made. She would trade one of her paintings for my Countdown Or Countup, That's The Question on one of her walls. Eventually we closed the deal and now “Golden Tiger” is residing with me and Anna-Karin's kitchen will never be quite the same again.

June 2019 and on.

... Galleri Mellanrum

I was very happy when Countdown Or Countup, That's The Question got the chance to be a part of Galleri Mellanrum's two year anniversary exhibition in December 2018. Instead of a regular print me and the gallery's curator Mats decided to make a wall paper from it. As it was my very first practical experience with wall paper of almost any kind I was nervous about the outcome, but it turned out quite well in the end. The piece had to make way for the spring exhibition in 2019.

December 2018 – May 2019.

Sweden Tower of Barcelona, year 1929