Absence (with verifications)
Entering only to leave 
Essential academicism
Formatted Contract Asleep
Formatted Contract in Poses
Formatted Contract in Pastels
Formatted Contract while Fading
Formatted Contract in Gaze
Leaving the scene
Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting
Unbreak my heart (encyclopedia)

Absence (with verifications)  
Oil on canvas, 1,8 m x 1,5 m + oil on papers, 12 x 1 m x 1,2 m
Installation view from 2009 at The Museum of Sketches, Lund, SE

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installation view

Papers lay on the floor of my studio as I painted the picture “Absence”.  I was interested in capturing the essence of a monochrome abstract painting as well as the idea of a literal all-coherent history painting. I was so captured by this task and the seemingly endless labor on the canvas that I did not realize what my brush created on the side of the painting. I dried off access paint on papers lying on the floor.  I put each sheet away when there was no clear paper left for me to exploit. When the painting was done all papers lay in a corner of the studio as trash. It was a vital decision for me to choose to employ the papers in an installation with the painting. This painting is a finalized object. The papers were pure process. They are in the title referred to as “Verifications”.