a list of readings and varied source material as of 2026
For the Boxes, Ive carried with me the following ones:
- Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction by Ursula le Guin
- Lesbian Body by Monique Wittig
- The knowledge my dad taught me of wood, and of living with hand-crafted objects
- The habit of mending my clothes, that both my parents taught me
- Susan Cianciolo workshop on sewing and mending with meditation (thank you as always Moza for bringing me)
- Dovetails
- Storage/containers as decorative objects like the ones sailors used to bring back home (sjoemans kista = traditional sailors chest, often found in homes in the archipelago back home)
- Red oxide paint used to paint the houses in the Finnish archipelago. Some paint it with the shade Roedmylla (also called Falun red), but the other kind called Italian red is also used. The italian red rye flour paint is similar to the oil paint called ‘venetian red’
For the Windoors, apart from the inevitable relationship to your neighbours through tightly positioned windows and their curtains, some things Ive carried with me:
- Most of all, the short story White Rabbits by Leonora Carrington
- Zubaran’s cloth
- George Tooker curtain painting
- Trans rage and love
- Margiela fall 2006
For the drawings in metal cases:
- Clara, my partner. To feel so much love, and be loved as a transperson by another transperson. I am still finding ways to express the tension between private and public and what is visible and what remains private.
- Protective casing, door protectors, pencil cases, frames – their mechanisms and function
- Lesbian Body by Monique Wittig
What I return to/cannot stop thinking about (uncategorised):
- Stains found in clothes, tabletops and notebooks
- Ghost marks and the remnants of grease and wear
- Junkspace – Rem Koolhaas
- Prunella Clough’s paintings – industrial landscapes, dust and charcoal
- Hello, the Roses by Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge – Her “rate of perception” slows down, because of its complexity
- Drawing as fog
- Bruce Nauman: Mindfuck edited by Phillip Larratt-Smith – slips of tongue, …when a bodily experience is transformed into a mental event, or when a thought becomes a feeling, and then perhaps an object.
- Painting Beside Itself by David Joselit
- Heliogabalus by Antonin Artaud
- Gorgeous Nothings – Emily Dickinson’s notes and envelopes
- Night Philosophy by Fanny Howe – and the ruminations before sleep
- Fair Play by Tove Jansson – for times of unintended rest
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