TRACES OF RETURNING

This project emerges from my fascination with nature and our relationship to the landscape. It is a collaboration between art and nature, where I use cyanotype on canvas that, in direct contact with the landscape, is immersed in the sea at various locations—from the west coast of Sweden to Finisterre in Galicia, northern Spain.

The elements I use in the process—waves, sand, and sediment—leave physical imprints on the surface through a photochemical reaction triggered by the meeting of sunlight and seawater. I do not intervene in this process but allow nature’s own forces to create unique, unpredictable traces.

The wave, as an endlessly ongoing movement, can repeat itself infinitely, but never in exactly the same way. Each work becomes part of a larger collection, bearing marks from different geographical environments. The collection becomes a kind of archive—a physical documentation of the passage of time and nature’s transience and permanence.

The archive is also a memory. What we remember is often not what we see directly, but a sense that something continues to exist beyond our immediate observation. In the same way, these wave movements and their effects persist even when they are no longer visible.

The project began in Finisterre, a place historically seen as the end of the world, overlooking the Atlantic Ocean—a symbolic site for both endings and beginnings.

Traces of Returning is a dialogue between natural processes, visual documentation, and existence beyond the visible. The works can be experienced as individual objects or as part of a larger installation, where the collection forms a rhythmic sequence of variation and continuity—a poetic meditation on art and science.