Facts help us understand the world. Stories shape our imagination. Imagination influences our choices. And our choices become the future.
I believe art is not only a way of reflecting the world, but of expanding the possibilities we leave behind
Before becoming an artist, I worked as a civil engineer, building roads, tunnels, harbours, and coastal infrastructure in Iceland and northern Norway. Engineering taught me to understand landscapes as interconnected systems where water, geology, ecology, infrastructure, and human decisions constantly influence one another. Today, I approach my artistic practice through the same systems perspective. Instead of asking how to build physical infrastructure, I ask how art can help build the cultural infrastructure that allows people, communities, and ecosystems to flourish.
My work moves across painting, performance, film, and installation, exploring the relationship between humans and the natural world. I am interested in places where environmental change reveals something deeper about memory, responsibility, and the choices we make as societies. Rather than presenting nature as a backdrop, I see landscapes as living archives that carry stories of both human intervention and resilience.
Personal transformation has also shaped my practice. After overcoming personal struggles like alcoholism and obesity, painting became a way of rebuilding my life and learning to see the world differently. What began as a deeply personal search gradually evolved into a broader investigation of how we live together, how we care for one another, and what we leave behind for those who will inherit the world after us.
I increasingly work through long-duration performances, moving image, and interdisciplinary collaborations alongside painting. These projects bring together scientific research, local knowledge, lived experience, and artistic intuition. I am interested in creating spaces where different forms of understanding can meet—not to offer simple answers, but to ask better questions.
My recent work has developed into an ongoing artistic investigation about Flourishing.
At its heart lies a simple question:
How do we leave behind more possibilities than we inherited?
For me, is not a destination but a continuous process of creating the conditions in which future generations—human and more-than-human—can imagine, adapt, create, and thrive.
I do not believe art alone can solve the challenges of our time. I do believe it can cultivate the imagination from which new possibilities emerge.
Every generation inherits an unfinished world.
My work is an invitation to leave behind one with greater possibilities than the one we received.