My painting practice is about distinguishing fragments, distorting and transferring information from already existing images, rather than creating new ones. I collect images from Google image search, film stills, advertisements and news articles to form a digital archive. This archive covers more than 1.000 digital images. In Photoshop I cut and distort an image before I paint it. I zoom into details and crop the image to delete indicators of time and place. I change the colors to a monochrome scale, both to simplify the paintings and to give an impression of the digital.

While my artistic process relies on routine and dedicated work, it is just as important to try out new ideas and methods. Right now my process is investigative. To keep
a course, I’ve asked myself these questions; If I use a reference photo that depicts
a specific place, scene or person, how can I distort the image to give my painting a more vague expression? How can I change focus, from the reference photos' original narrative to something more universal and relatable? The goal is that my paintings would ask questions rather than give answers when they meet the public.

The reference photos for the two paintings ‘Never been scared’ and ‘Tell the truth’ are fragments of screenshots from the film Melancholia by Lars von Trier. The goal was to have the emotional tone of the film shine through the paintings, even when all details and the narrative has been cut out.