As a Norwegian born New Yorker, creating a surrealist combination of Norse Mythology and US pop culture, I’m using humor to overcome my existential angst. 

While navigating multiple cultures working on several media; sculpture, augmented reality, video, and performance, a crossroads of creation and destruction and of body and nature, I’m searching for meaning in an ever fragmented world that seems to be forever relooking itself. 

Through humor, low and high culture, by reimagining what goes beyond easy stereotypes, I reclaim my cultural roots from Norway, offering an underlying, subversive message about personal empowerment and the alarming state of our world. 

Inspired by Norse Mythology, central to it is the idea of the land, I am reimagining the creation and destruction of the cosmos. Here, Auðumbla, the first cow, whose purpose is to reveal the first gods from the ice, is shaped as my bull-terrier in vibrant colors.

I juxtapose my heritage with my NYC-life, by combining nature and myths with 3D animated and printed sculptures, video performance, archaic stop-animation, and Cyberpunk music.

Embracing the imperfect performer, I incorporate myself into pre-existing fables where men traditionally were the protagonists, transforming the process into one of personal empowerment. Elevating animals to gods, with a Neo-Dada approach, the work is a reminder that land is threatened and that it is no longer endless, pointing out our disconnect with nature, the destruction of our environment and ourselves. My work allows these stories to be reborn, a renaissance of Nordic fables made contemporary.

Year Created: 2022 - present (this in an ongoing world building project)