jennyjacobsson

Hide and seek

I remember sketching the idea out in the middle of a sleepless night. I snuck out of bed at about 2 or 3 am while Andreas was sleeping, snatching a notepad out ...
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I remember sketching the idea out in the middle of a sleepless night. I snuck out of bed at about 2 or 3 am while Andreas was sleeping, snatching a notepad out of the dark on my way into the bathroom. Sitting there with bare legs on the cold tiles I wrote pages about a constant search through life, questions about truths not always visible, and actions taken.

The story of ‘Hide and seek’ is heavily based on the transition I have done in life. Being part of my series ‘Parallels’, it carries the research I so often revisit in my work.
The idea is also heavily influenced by something I remember my grandmother say when I was a child…

"If you bring heather inside the house,
you bring death in with it."

That old superstition was the foundation of this exact location and for me, a big part of this story.
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