https://hermitwebsite.com Hermit Wed, 27 May 2026 18:37:10 +0000 https://hermitwebsite.com en https://hermitwebsite.com/home Mon, 03 Mar 2025 11:37:29 +0000 Hermit https://hermitwebsite.com/home <img width="3000" height="3750" width_o="3000" height_o="3750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3d1a05baa9138e35a6222d30e533d8bba924b613d166d84ae14c5016006b0cc2/marie-1.jpg" data-mid="250990403" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3d1a05baa9138e35a6222d30e533d8bba924b613d166d84ae14c5016006b0cc2/marie-1.jpg" /> <img width="1440" height="645" width_o="1440" height_o="645" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d0cfe177d14a96c22291cd568230aa823b47bcdf173d712299fd974931bcb6a7/hermitlogo.svg" data-mid="250990413" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d0cfe177d14a96c22291cd568230aa823b47bcdf173d712299fd974931bcb6a7/hermitlogo.svg" /> Marie view now Jim read now Magnus enjoy now Märta look now Fredrik explore now Nicole discover now Yuki &amp; Helen consume now R:sdesign peep now Alex devour now Colin do now Ursula act now Militza &amp; Elis dip into now Johannes peruse now Tora see now Isak &amp; Malin browse now Oscar click now Last updated: 5-Aug-2026 18:22 Location: Stockholm, SE Follow us on Instagram https://hermitwebsite.com/marie-1 Wed, 27 May 2026 18:37:10 +0000 Hermit https://hermitwebsite.com/marie-1 <img width="3000" height="3750" width_o="3000" height_o="3750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/416c4e126148a8c0f52ef1384bb9c646e8e5d39f5c58b867b3256c3413917e41/marie-1.jpg" data-mid="250990136" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/416c4e126148a8c0f52ef1384bb9c646e8e5d39f5c58b867b3256c3413917e41/marie-1.jpg" /> marie: I’m from Sollentuna. It’s just 15 minutes from the city, but quite far mentally. When I meet people that are from Stockholm, I’m like, oh, wow, you had access to so much culture. I grew up in a place with huge economical differences which for me creates a culture that’s based on wealth and the lack of it. Which is something I’ve tried to escape from. <img width="3000" height="3750" width_o="3000" height_o="3750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/93b4c98077db5a0e786d9500301305dc53e954847cd44403aaca999895773768/marie-2.jpg" data-mid="250990137" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/93b4c98077db5a0e786d9500301305dc53e954847cd44403aaca999895773768/marie-2.jpg" /> Makes sense that you went to the biggest city possible. After living in New York for 13 years, what brought you back to Stockholm? I really loved living in New York City, it was my life and I had my people there, especially in art. Living in NYC is very difficult in lots of ways as it’s so expensive but I was making it work until I had my daughter. After she was born it didn’t feel sustainable as daycare cost around three-thousand dollars a month at its lowest. The extreme capitalism became apparent, like only rich people are supposed to get children so you can afford insane high cost child care. For me, it became too much and I didn’t want to be living there anymore under those circumstances. So, I decided to apply for my Masters in Fine Art at the Royal Institute of Fine Arts in Stockholm and I got in. This prompted me to move to Stockholm and once here and at the school I had everything that I was lacking in NYC. Not only did I have free daycare for my daughter but I also got a studio and workshops to work on my art within the schools premises. I immediately had all the facilities needed to produce art, it was great! There was a real purpose with my life coming back. It was a luxury after all those years hustling in NYC.There seems to be a different financial reality to being an artist in New York. Obviously the scene is much bigger and there’s a bigger audience to sell to as a gallery. While in Sweden, there is no real culture for buying art, as a regular person.Not the type of art that I think is interesting. It’s like some other sort of market that’s not really on a contemporary level. New York was like being at the center of the universe, there’s just so much art, most is horrible but some great art as well. To be involved with artists that live there is very satisfying because you feel you constantly are developing, whether you are having a studio or not doesn’t really matter. The conversations happens at openings, at art-related events etcetera. As an artist it means you’re constantly developing through your peers practices which is why I started the gallery Beau Travail here in Stockholm. <img width="3000" height="3750" width_o="3000" height_o="3750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0b7e8310536b06e090bdabecef0fced38a46b02bc7505fc487d5f8a44510acc5/marie-3.jpg" data-mid="250990138" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0b7e8310536b06e090bdabecef0fced38a46b02bc7505fc487d5f8a44510acc5/marie-3.jpg" /> there’s just so much art, most is horrible but some great as well.How do you go about seeking inspiration in Stockholm? It seems like in New York it sort of comes to you. Well, I had so many years in New York where I didn’t have a proper studio, as that was such an expensive practice, studio rents are around two-thousand dollars so I would have to make more money than I was making in order to maintain that sort of basic facility. Without a studio, it’s hard to make work, in New York City I managed to make work that required little to no budget. I shot videos with artist friends of mine, writing a quick script of a situation we’d be familiar and had them improvise in front of the camera while I would give them directions. The locations for these shoot in other people’s home, studios, etc and made a series of work around the art world which resulted in 7 films that are about hour long each. In Stockholm I work quite differently, I have been able to work in a studio since I’ve moved here and it has made my work less improvised and more conceptual. <img width="3000" height="3750" width_o="3000" height_o="3750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b9149ce26db61d99d04b5456ced619deb454f1e18582acd5cfb1a9ec12e31d15/marie-4.jpg" data-mid="250990139" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b9149ce26db61d99d04b5456ced619deb454f1e18582acd5cfb1a9ec12e31d15/marie-4.jpg" /> In Stockholm the openings seem like social happenings, but don’t necessarily function as a means to develop the practice or the discourse.Yes, it was actually what prompted me to want to start my own gallery. The art and artists that I’d got to know in New York had international acclaim and relevance, and were known in other cities like Zurich or Berlin, so the conversation could travel. But the artist practice was different here and felt more insular. A lot of the students at Mejan would rather stay at their studio and work instead of going out to an opening. I sort of get it, when things that are happening are not super exciting but at the same time I’m like how can you develop ideas when you have no social interaction with other art and artists?Is it that it’s a very local scene and not very interested in what goes on internationally and there’s no tapping into the kind of interplay between the two?Exactly. Even compared to like Oslo and Copenhagen, it seems they are more interested in showing international artists. It made me question why it’s so isolating here. I’ve now realized that it’s an economical question. Having international artists show works at the gallery is expensive. Travel, accommodation and transportation are extra costs that are avoided when showing local artists. On top of that, Swedish collectors are not interested in buying works by international artists here in Stockholm, they might do it in Basel but here in Stockholm they mostly buy Swedish local artists. So from an economical perspective, showing international artists is an economical failure but from an artistic perspective it’s so enriching to see works by artists that are showing in other places, it’s like a conversation that opens up for us to take part of. In terms of communication, by showing each other it creates this dialogue between us and it sort of limits the artists here to develop if they’re not getting shows in other places.it’s a good vibe here.It stops the conversation almost.There is a sort of dependency as an artist here, with a few people in power. It is limiting in that, you could be making art that they don’t like or that is not intended for large appeal, but that a lot of other people would enjoy. I felt that with a recent show, then I did an exhibition with an artists who I went to school with at Mejan. People that came to the gallery really were so excited about his exhibition. The response was overwhelming, and it made me think, what if I didn’t have the gallery, this exhibition would have never taken place as commercial galleries are not interested in showing this type of work.In some ways it’s hard to do something different in Stockholm because it’s like you said, there’s no place for it. At the same time there’s like, obviously so much space to be different, but there’s no place for it.I think it’s a great place right now to actually be an artist here! I started an artist owned space and there’s a couple more artists here in Stockholm that started artist run spaces as well. I’m actually kind of overwhelmed with the response I’ve gotten since I started the gallery. It has been great, just people being extremely positive. It’s a good vibe here where we support each other. <img width="3000" height="3750" width_o="3000" height_o="3750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fceadaa8901cca65e5997dace91de3b46d0a5f497a2dd987cefdcb1c6cf92e02/marie-5.jpg" data-mid="250990140" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fceadaa8901cca65e5997dace91de3b46d0a5f497a2dd987cefdcb1c6cf92e02/marie-5.jpg" /> How did Beau Travail come about? And tell us how you decided on the name.Most people that enter the gallery associate the name with Claire Denis film, and I love the film and decided on the name due to the film, but why I choose the name is because it means good or beautiful work, which I think is a fitting name for a gallery. I knew that I wanted to mix the artists that I’ve got to know in New York with people that lived in Sweden, and having established artists with not so established. It was loosely based on my own artistic practice and of how I work. It is important to have these places where artists get together, which is where I get ideas for my own work and by learning from each other. There was a void after leaving New York and not going to openings like I used to and being isolated in a studio. Being in conversations with other artists is so important to my practice. ✈ <img width="3000" height="3750" width_o="3000" height_o="3750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/374ffacc3e27ca0ec14a5bac278efc88be90228d39f054a1f5e60ccebf745bd4/marie-6.jpg" data-mid="250990141" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/374ffacc3e27ca0ec14a5bac278efc88be90228d39f054a1f5e60ccebf745bd4/marie-6.jpg" /> Marie view now Jim read now Magnus enjoy now Märta look now Fredrik explore now Nicole discover now Yuki &amp; Helen consume now R:sdesign peep now Alex devour now Colin do now Ursula act now Militza &amp; Elis dip into now Johannes peruse now Tora see now Isak &amp; Malin browse now Oscar click now Last updated: 5-Aug-2026 18:22 Location: Stockholm, SE Follow us on Instagram https://hermitwebsite.com/jim-1 Mon, 03 Mar 2025 11:37:06 +0000 Hermit https://hermitwebsite.com/jim-1 <img width="2898" height="3619" width_o="2898" height_o="3619" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9c15062152b401d95c0203d4418066fa80e8222e48a5839a9b9dec777458db53/unnamed.jpg" data-mid="227512049" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9c15062152b401d95c0203d4418066fa80e8222e48a5839a9b9dec777458db53/unnamed.jpg" /> jim: Watch the step, beneath it is a work by Henning Hamilton! I’m curious to see everything that’s here, is there a lot of stuff? Yes, we have about three storage units. Art or family things? Mostly family things actually. I have a really hard time throwing out art and things that are useful. The four of us have very different views on what holds value. As a parent there is a utility mindset that comes on. <img width="2898" height="2170" width_o="2898" height_o="2170" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fbd0d3f555e6b1400ae4af4a5b899a89de337619fbcf82be609b05ce39278917/unnamed-2.jpg" data-mid="227512050" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fbd0d3f555e6b1400ae4af4a5b899a89de337619fbcf82be609b05ce39278917/unnamed-2.jpg" /> being boring is necessary! But like your daughter Eva told me, you seem like a fun parent. I also think there has to be a balance, that being boring is necessary! As an artist and all the freedom that entails, gives me a kind of freedom to be boring according to my ability. My friend Alfred (Boman) told me once, when at the time I was struggling with being confined to the frame of the painting, the formalistic. That I could let go of that, that there was enough funky stuff in the painting, that in compromising I wouldn’t lose anything. <img width="3000" height="3750" width_o="3000" height_o="3750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/38370b443422d6ad518ec9e89f9ebe5328ab3346bec52720673564fc03a427d6/Frame-108.jpg" data-mid="227512048" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/38370b443422d6ad518ec9e89f9ebe5328ab3346bec52720673564fc03a427d6/Frame-108.jpg" /> And maybe in that friction you also find something? Yes, allowing yourself to be boring is a privilege for the very funky. I’m not really boring, but I try to be. But if you are boring and try to be fun, that is a greater struggle. ¶ Routines are essential, but when the kids are off to school I often think “what should I do today?”. They have times to keep, but for me and my wife, Elin, it’s more about following the routine that we have created to achieve some kind of normalcy, to not go crazy. Sounds like something in you likes the freedom, but can it ever be too much? My freedom is not something that I have actively chosen, but something that has grown organically, therefore I have to work more actively around its structure, how to shape it. There is a balance to it. I have my studio, I need to go there as often as I can, and spend as much time there as possible. ¶ Sometimes when the painting feels static I turn to different crafts, when I am too clear or strong in a specific form, or I find myself in the same place dealing with the same thing. To break things up it’s healthy to do something completely different, change the focus. The other day I made a small wallet (for my son) and it helped me solve the painting I was working on. nothing really matters in the end. It became a parallel process! Exactly, and it has shown me that I can leave painting for a while, turn the energy elsewhere and return to it. Instead of staring myself blind at it. The understanding of painting is something that has been built over time, that the brain seeks familiarity.Do you ever feel trapped in the language or understanding of painting? When wanting to do something else, something new?It is pretty intuitive as a language, so I don’t feel trapped in that sense, more so the context that I might find myself in or belonging to. In the western world there is an understanding of what art is. Periodically this can feel more inhibiting than anything else. It can be really nice then to connect with nature and see myself as a being in the universe at a specific time, that nothing really matters in the end. <img width="2480" height="1860" width_o="2480" height_o="1860" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/70b2ecfbbe56867e70bbff62d673ae163eb0e0f2133ec135acb3b4ce7790ef1c/4.jpg" data-mid="227512052" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/70b2ecfbbe56867e70bbff62d673ae163eb0e0f2133ec135acb3b4ce7790ef1c/4.jpg" /> Big picture, yes. Having exhibited many places, studied many places, and knowing that cultures shapes us, what bubble that you have found in yourself in, has shaped you the most? The autonomous art scene outside of the museums, which I came across through my parents as a child, the hippies and the dropouts, they had no interest in returning to a context. Primitivism, and a strong desire to not capitalise and not become someone other than who they are in their own lives, to be true to themselves. It has been inherent in me, and having that confidence has made it less of a risk to be boring, to make sacrifices and compromises with the art world, because I know that it is intact within me. It might be idealistic, but if you remove everything else, it will still exist and there is solace in that. <img width="2484" height="3102" width_o="2484" height_o="3102" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/48cf32b3c5bd515986cd3650256b2563e3050ae86f424e7cc5f98571ae2c5c48/5.jpg" data-mid="227512053" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/48cf32b3c5bd515986cd3650256b2563e3050ae86f424e7cc5f98571ae2c5c48/5.jpg" /> How does it then feel when someone places you in a context? It feels good when it rings true. It was fun when I had just graduated Valand, Fredrik Svensk wrote in Expressen or Aftonbladet and he grouped me and my friends, Alfred Boman, Duda Bebek, as having a vein of surrealism that bound our work, which I had not considered before. It is really hard to have a perspective on my own work, it can take many years before I can see the value of my worth. How sensitive is it to look back at your old work? Having recently been in the presence of a bunch of collectors, many of them seemed almost embarrassed by the first thing they purchased.There is a difference in consumer versus producer, I feel that with, say, a pair of trousers—it can almost be painful. It is not like a diary entry, but more a survival mechanism. To be able to apply the inner workings on an external context, there is a greater compromise. Returning to a diary entry, you can reflect on how unaware you were at one time, but with my work I can see the struggle to understand in the lack of clarity, that is something that is lost the more refined the work becomes. If I can age with painting, something interesting will come with that. ¶ All progress leads me to be able to continue the work. There is only me fuelling the work, so there is no danger of becoming too big, to be able to delegate the work. With some artists that produce large scale work, they have other people do specific things for them. In your opinion does one buy the art for the concept or the stroke of the hand? I would say the concept, that is a brand in a way. It is possible to guard against it, the technique can do most things, creativity is not a necessity, but it’s for your own personal development. You can also keep your own language even if someone else formalises it, like AI. <img width="2484" height="3102" width_o="2484" height_o="3102" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/be1c38d02ca06c0de1901a6db811b9ee30db8c849c30a834637d21c29be05d63/6.jpg" data-mid="227512054" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/be1c38d02ca06c0de1901a6db811b9ee30db8c849c30a834637d21c29be05d63/6.jpg" /> Have you ever had a straight job, like an office job? And what is the strangest job that you’ve had?My strangest job was probably loading dried fruit in Gothenburg. I also worked at Svenska Mässan with a bunch of characters. That was pretty strange, it was snabba (fast) cash. And before we had kids I worked as a gardener and painter, which was really nice and calm, but not very lucrative. At that time I only worked to cover rent. <img width="2484" height="3102" width_o="2484" height_o="3102" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b1948b6dde4e61c8fa7cd4b9703081566fbb70dcfb8f210b69b0cbb27dce1695/7.jpg" data-mid="227512055" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b1948b6dde4e61c8fa7cd4b9703081566fbb70dcfb8f210b69b0cbb27dce1695/7.jpg" /> i’d like to have a casserole restaurant and only serve things like bœuf bourguignon. What would you like to be when you grow up?Become a gubbe (an old man)! I’d like to have a workshop, fixing electronics or to have a restaurant would be fun. It has been on my bucket list for a long time. I like soul food and would like to have a casserole restaurant, only serving things like bœuf bourguignon. The ideal would be to have a casserole that is always good and sometimes eclipses the spot. I am not for the trend of serving trendy snacks that are simple—it is curated shopping. <img width="2480" height="1860" width_o="2480" height_o="1860" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0dcd8cf3c1f5e7ee55821a6e94b79507076abb5a7bbe3da15da34cce55aaf5bc/8.jpg" data-mid="227512056" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0dcd8cf3c1f5e7ee55821a6e94b79507076abb5a7bbe3da15da34cce55aaf5bc/8.jpg" /> How did you find art? It was mostly through my mom, taking me to museums as a child. There is a big difference of course between art in a museum and living, contemporary art. School was not good for me, luckily I had some teachers that saw me and said that I didn’t have to suffer through it. I was allowed to graduate without a complete diploma if I agreed that I would apply to art school, a kind of social contract. At that time you could still apply with samples of your work, which made it possible for me. I was terrible as an employee, would always argue with the managers, that was not a possibility. Everything was pointing towards it. Despite that, you have done quite a few courses in art, how was that?I have done two preparatory classes and one higher education in fine art, and it had exchanges around the world. I just went to the library and chose a random place like Japan to do my exchange, filled out a blanket and got a plane ticket and showed up. The private stipends transferred directly to me and I had to transfer it to the school, a whole other level of trust back then. So I went to Japan for three months, a semester that was very odd. It is fun to be a tourist in Japan, but everyday life is tough. I was 25 and wanted action and things to happen, the everyday poetry was lost on me. But I actually went back with my family last week. <img width="2484" height="3102" width_o="2484" height_o="3102" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e2e18cd77dbbc66e31010c1a510e25476999ede761c3247097db0a69c43c9d68/9.jpg" data-mid="227512057" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e2e18cd77dbbc66e31010c1a510e25476999ede761c3247097db0a69c43c9d68/9.jpg" /> What was it like returning to Japan? It was painful to leave. Being there as a tourist is really fun. This time every day was just lovely and coming back to Sweden I became aware of how rushed everything is, the lack of attention to details, which forsakes things that we have access to, in this rush to get there. Not being present in the moment, which comes from paying attention to every step, even the minutia. Exactly. This time I really noticed that every little thing they do, they do with a kind of devotion, because it is better to live that kind of life, rather than rushing and doing it mindlessly, hoping for the best. That resonates with how my painting has developed this last five years, that I have directed it with the mindset that every painting lives on its own, not a placeholder for something else, not working on a series that is specific for a context. Every painting is singular. Although they can be paired, there is no formal idea on how they are used, they are just supposed to be. That way you can start and stop the conversation, as you wish.It has become like a microscope where you change the focus. Whereas before I wanted to capture something, describe it, now I see painting more as turning the wheel. <img width="2484" height="3102" width_o="2484" height_o="3102" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6bc20c6a6886000eab6b76d7f7b80cc0041e92749db931bc21058445904bd8e8/10.jpg" data-mid="227512058" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6bc20c6a6886000eab6b76d7f7b80cc0041e92749db931bc21058445904bd8e8/10.jpg" /> Being an artist resembles a process of self discovery, a mirroring process in a way aimed at removing the layers to reach a core, something authentic. Is that what painting feels like to you? There is something compulsive about it, because the habit has been formed over such a long time, that mix between hubris and self-extinction. Sometimes I fluctuate from pure joy and excitement from a discovery, and the next day seeing it as something flat and dead. ¶ Artists are masochists in some ways, needing a great deal of ego to even have the belief and conviction to put something out there, but as soon as a work is finished, the ego falls flat, and the circle is completed. ¶ There is a lot of cognitive dissonance and delusions of grandeur involved, having to convince oneself that what we are doing is important, or seen as something to be shared. Yes, why else would one do it? That’s where a lot of the idealism comes in, which is hard to perpetuate, and grow up in a grown up world at the same time, succeeding at that, also points to an element of delusion. it’s so fun to experience things through my kids. Idealism, creativity, joy and wonder are all childlike qualities that the artists has managed to keep and others might have lost.Precisely, it is a privilege to keep that in intact. I don’t think people that wake up as boring people, is a question of survival, it is painful to remain open, so they close off. When I was bumming around in India, I found the people so open and filterless, it was refreshing and honest. As a Swede it was tough not having the personal space that I was used to. Being accessible to all, it took some getting used to, but it was nice to be stimulated that way. It was a formative experience, much like military service, which was painful in other ways. Both were useful experiences to have gone through, and I believe in doing things that way, to do it wholeheartedly, absorbing as much as we can. ¶ For me, I understood early that relations are central and key to oneself, keeping them in a dialogue, rather than objects that I attach my emotions to, the interplay makes everything richer. A lot of things we do keeps us from experiencing that, maybe because it is so intense. I think a lot of times that it’s so fun to experience things through my kids, sharing the experience with them, like going to Japan. Your daughter said that what she enjoyed most about Japan was that everything talked and had a sound, which is quite a profound observation for any age. What are your kids like? They are similar to me in some ways, but they are also their own people. We have developed our own languages and things we take part in together. When I think I have them figured out they untangle a new part of their personality. Having studied them since they were born, I am always amazed by their capacity. Their inner beings just are, and being a parent has helped me understand myself better. It has actually made me kinder towards myself, it is easier to see what I like about them in me, realising that I have the same quality has made me like it more. <img width="2484" height="3102" width_o="2484" height_o="3102" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3b0756f3caefa7eae46af396b3374cb005a9aaf0ad4f88bec69e349046374121/11.jpg" data-mid="227512059" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3b0756f3caefa7eae46af396b3374cb005a9aaf0ad4f88bec69e349046374121/11.jpg" /> What is it like to be with another artist? It has mostly been a good thing. But the financial stress is of course there, sometimes wishing that one of us brought financial stability to the mix, or wondering what that would be like. Both Elin and I talk about art intuitively, the way we see it, rather than referencing it back to the art, a process that has been twenty years in the making. We witness things, without expectations, an openness to what is. But also if it’s not there immediately, then it might not be for us. How long have you lived here? Elin: Nine years!It takes time to build the layers of a lived life, like this.Elin: It is really lived in. It's a little small. But we actually lived in the building across, in a one bed, but then we left for a year and returned, we like it so much. Having moved across the courtyard to stay in the same place, what makes Essingen feel like home? I like places that are a bit unchangeable, and here things have not changed that much, the buildings were also built to last, a bit of utilitarian perfection. Many that live in this house move when it becomes too cramped, because there are no bigger flats. Tell us more about your art collection!The Michael Manning piece is interesting, he doesn’t really do art anymore, but he was an artist that we hung out with in L.A. We were supposed to trade our work, but I didn’t want his large-scale pieces. He had done this piece on tin and it was in his garden, with a bit of patina which I liked. <img width="2484" height="1860" width_o="2484" height_o="1860" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fb073fcae49f5304ef67bc9ed8e1177d18b477e6eccd06468ab2b55e05a31007/12.jpg" data-mid="227512060" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fb073fcae49f5304ef67bc9ed8e1177d18b477e6eccd06468ab2b55e05a31007/12.jpg" /> What is the thought behind the pieces that you bring back? Jim:We don’t really! We even have this piece by John, our son. John: I have thought a lot about murder mysteries and so on. The face is the face of the killer. It is like a story. It feels like you have the capacity to tackle what’s in front of you, but do you ever feel challenged? Being that you have such an expansive mindset. Getting the idea to make sense. How to formulate and clarify that to someone. It feels inhibiting and hard. Could it be because it is a constant exploration and a search, and defining it, gives the impression that it is clear and definable? It is a form of dance that I don’t know the steps to. When it really is about gaining a perspective on how to describe it most accurately. But it is interesting how many times it can leave you with the feeling of not mastering it, and the sense that it is easy for everyone else. <img width="2484" height="3102" width_o="2484" height_o="3102" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c37d1ccd5e015ff738d8787407a2438f45de797833ff8cc26d40e127458e65e1/13.jpg" data-mid="227512061" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c37d1ccd5e015ff738d8787407a2438f45de797833ff8cc26d40e127458e65e1/13.jpg" /> i don’t have a process, i just do it. When do you feel at your most productive? I don’t have process, I just do it. It is an extension of my everyday, it is like a tool. I have reflected over the fact that I have never experienced a block. I know many that struggle with that.Do you ever throw out things that you do?Yes, but mostly things that I archive, that I don’t see the value, but then I always end up regretting it. At times I have thrown out works, because I became paranoid that someone else would adapt and take something that I couldn’t stand by, that it would somehow come back to haunt me. But I do enjoy having control over my archive. And I always like to meet everyone that buy works off me, often seeing how the work hangs. Most people have a lovely space for it. There are esoteric elements in your work and your everyday seems like a spiritual practice, how does that come across in your work? In the extension of the self, elevate that from the basal, both in the process and in the final piece. Dare to explore, be dedicated and do my best all the time, and constantly redefine what that means. That way it doesn’t become about polishing a tool, of achieving perfection, but a process of continual exploration. <img width="2484" height="1860" width_o="2484" height_o="1860" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0626563519eb9769874fea94a67ab6b71dc745f32218af7d3acbdfc05debf813/14.jpg" data-mid="227512062" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0626563519eb9769874fea94a67ab6b71dc745f32218af7d3acbdfc05debf813/14.jpg" /> Where do you get your input? I get input all the time, too much input. The best is to wake up and feel presence in the moment I have with my kids in the morning. But I also like to do breath work and morning exercise. Building up some kind of resilience in what gets to penetrates. Music is also something that I have to be mindful of, to not effect me too much. I have one go to, which is a music project by the composer that did the soundscape to Akira, a piece of work that consists of drums and Japanese opera. It no longer exists on Apple music, which was soul destroying, even though I own it on vinyl. I have Synesthesia, so music and colour are vivid to me and I have to be mindful of that when I’m painting. When I was younger I would just illustrate what I saw, but it was never clear or centred. it no longer exists on apple music, which was soul destroying. Colour is central to your work, how does that translate? It is intuitive, but I also like to add a limit. I don’t want a complete colour pallet. It should randomised, that it feels a bit wrong, but it is right in that context, in the same way that patina adds to an object, which makes it feel less perfect, but more alive. The mechanical of knowing how to do something correctly is not interesting to me, it is nice to find something by chance, is what adds the humanity. How do you think around the way you dress?Jim: Of course I am aware of what I wear, but if something works, why change? That is the advantage of being by your self outside of the home. As long as I look presentable, which is pretty easy. Change my clothes about once a week. There is no one at work that does a fit check and my family don’t notice.Elin: You dress well, but you tend to like the same things. Yes, there is an element of a Steve jobs wardrobe!Absolutely! When I was younger I never thought I could relate to a routine person. But now as an adult, I could really have a Steve Jobs wardrobe, if I only knew where he got his jumpers. He solved something about a formal and casual wardrobe, that can be used in all contexts. I have a business and regular wardrobe. What is business Jim?Jim: Wouldn’t you like to know! It is a lot about the seasons, now that Summer Jim is out, Business Jim is toast. At some point I just stop wearing a shirt all together, usually around mid-July, often adding a hat. Elin: You also stop sleeping indoors. <img width="2484" height="1860" width_o="2484" height_o="1860" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d01d12274cc96a1d70b44ee27e1fd3425fbeb4fefc2a5e6bbf6e502094445098/15.jpg" data-mid="227512063" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d01d12274cc96a1d70b44ee27e1fd3425fbeb4fefc2a5e6bbf6e502094445098/15.jpg" /> Then where do you sleep? In a hammock, at one in nature. November Jim does not know July Jim, they are two different people. He is a much tricker person, smarter, he shaves. Right now I don’t want to go back to him. now that summer jim is out, business jim is toast. How do you feel when the hair comes off? I have a theory that it makes us harder somehow. Elin: I like him to have long hair, it makes him softer. I also don’t like it when you wear boxy jackets, you become affected by what you wear and what you present as. It is almost like a character. Jim: My understanding of myself is very fluid, so the transformation is quick, all it takes is a hat. It is untenable, my outline becomes blurry. In the morning I have to do things to come into form. When I start painting, I find myself again. But If I have a meeting in the morning, I will dress for that occasion and become a character, and after that meeting I become disillusioned. That is why a Steve Jobs look works! But it took me about 45 years to find. But you have found some essence, I think of you in terms of khaki and earth tones. Elin: You always want to appear normal. I love your interpretation of normal! It has been a life long battle to just blend in. I have a love for the idea of an H&amp;M jacket in Fall—something completely impersonal. Why can’t I just wear that and be happy? I think about that every year and then Summer comes along. I like to tell myself that Winter is good because I’m really productive. Everything feels tough in Winter. But how can we have more Summertime all year long, the feeling of feet in water, everyday. ✺ Marie view now Jim read now Magnus enjoy now Märta look now Fredrik explore now Nicole discover now Yuki &amp; Helen consume now R:sdesign peep now Alex devour now Colin do now Ursula act now Militza &amp; Elis dip into now Johannes peruse now Tora see now Isak &amp; Malin browse now Oscar click now Last updated: 5-Aug-2026 18:22 Location: Stockholm, SE Follow us on Instagram https://hermitwebsite.com/magnus Mon, 03 Mar 2025 11:42:45 +0000 Hermit https://hermitwebsite.com/magnus <img width="2880" height="3600" width_o="2880" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6513737dd50c2dc17f0312f512a4741ccfc0f56e8ad5cce5072c7f15d2a7bc40/12.jpg" data-mid="227512941" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6513737dd50c2dc17f0312f512a4741ccfc0f56e8ad5cce5072c7f15d2a7bc40/12.jpg" /> magnus How are your records organised? Alphabetically. Do you have a favourite record, both in terms of sound and the record cover? I have all the record covers from 4AD, the record label, and some from the design duo 23 Envelope, and the covers made by Peter Saville for New Order. I also have a thing for early 60s covers, the Ronettes etc. I like these covers for the colours and fonts. Like my first edition Ronettes LP, where the name has been misspelt with two Ns. You have quite a collection! Is it like a time warp of all your faves? It’s like a time document, but not intentionally. I’ve always been interested in music and collecting records. I’ve lived here for over 30 years in this apartment. From the beginning there was no intention of collecting clothes, I just saved everything that I have bought throughout the years. It has somehow become a collection and I have a specific designer that I collect: Walter Van Beirendonck. I collect in the sense that I like to wear it and return to it, not for the sake of collecting. <img width="2880" height="1620" width_o="2880" height_o="1620" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c9f525a554b4b49b6c5dac5a03cc2b1b51e5ea6c880c9f3b89cace4d84280966/2.jpg" data-mid="227512931" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c9f525a554b4b49b6c5dac5a03cc2b1b51e5ea6c880c9f3b89cace4d84280966/2.jpg" /> As someone with a very personal sense of style, how would you describe it to someone you’d never met? I cannot say it’s a specific style. It’s important for me to feel good and that it emphasise something about me. If I don’t feel good putting it on, then it’s not for me. This whole thing that you buy things because you think someone else is gonna think it’s good, that feels wrong to me. A lot of people dress up in things just because someone else makes it look good, not knowing if it suits them or not. i collect in the sense that i like to wear it and return to it, not for the sake of collecting. And maybe that mentality is a bit Swedish? The need to see someone else wearing it before its considered safe to wear it?Yes, for some it almost feels like a stamp of approval. who do you dress for?Now, I need it to feel like me, not a specific style. I mix everything, I buy secondhand, add a lot of colour. Walter is a lot of colour. It’s not antagonistic, I don’t do it to provoke, but of course it is always nice to be noticed. <img width="1440" height="1800" width_o="1440" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b7d6b1e05b6d1d6a75e8859cc8171b94cd3ba46f3b13a9a5b4a067b40081e04c/4.gif" data-mid="227512933" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b7d6b1e05b6d1d6a75e8859cc8171b94cd3ba46f3b13a9a5b4a067b40081e04c/4.gif" /> What draws you to Walter and his designs? He does so many things and has been going since the 80s. It’s fun, but it’s still serious. He pushes the limits, but with a sense of humour. There is also something subversive about his clothes, the presence of sex and a fetish feeling, but in good taste. ¶ That seems very much on trend at the moment, done well it can be about boundaries and the exploring identity. It is surprisingly layered, not so much about the literal interpretation, but the context of the designer. <img width="2880" height="1620" width_o="2880" height_o="1620" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/14bf157b72d3986419a135c6bb7b40b257f07b586588f24136928fc7797e1aaf/5.jpg" data-mid="227512934" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/14bf157b72d3986419a135c6bb7b40b257f07b586588f24136928fc7797e1aaf/5.jpg" /> What do you care the most about in your collection?Even though my clothes are precious to me, it would be something from my childhood home. Photos probably, after all clothes are just clothes. clothes are just clothes. It sounds to me like you are all about references, which also create your home. Do you feel nostalgic about your things you own?I think so, I tend to buy things that remind me of past periods. Now we are more aware of references than we were before the internet. <img width="2880" height="1620" width_o="2880" height_o="1620" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/23c8066a2efc9e2b7165341c8b231cc9cc887f7000285ce97a32835e0208d9ac/6.jpg" data-mid="227512935" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/23c8066a2efc9e2b7165341c8b231cc9cc887f7000285ce97a32835e0208d9ac/6.jpg" /> Speaking of the internet, do you use social media?On Instagram, yes. And Facebook I use for information on clubbing. A friend of mine has a theory that it is why the bar and club scene is declining, because of social media.Yes, and it takes away the mystery somehow as you already know people through the apps, which changes the scene. But that goes for all things, now you can see everything as it happens, a fashion show in Japan. Back in the day you had to search for things, if you were lucky there would be a mention on TV about the show or you would have to wait to find it in a magazine. ¶ I wouldn’t say it was better, but it created more curiosity. It is the same for music, I can somehow miss the feeling of the hunt for say a new song, when you had to tour all of the record shops and listen to the new records. Or you even went out to hear new music. ¶ Another thing that it has contributed to is that we no longer listen to entire albums, but single tracks. ¶ It has less worth somehow, you can skip or shuffle it. A record had to be good on both sides, it was really important that the B-side could hold its own. <img width="2880" height="1800" width_o="2880" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b4a3b99433cbda1b699b8384b71322220cc6b759cea75ebe20304914921fd3c5/7.jpg" data-mid="227512936" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b4a3b99433cbda1b699b8384b71322220cc6b759cea75ebe20304914921fd3c5/7.jpg" /> i want to play hard techno. Are you loyal to a genre? And what do you tend to play when you DJ?I listen to a lot of things. If I play out, which is very seldom, I want to play hard techno. I don’t collect as many records nowadays, but at home I listen to the old stuff, like 60s soul, I was very much into Motown, Northern Soul, and of course 90s house music. I am not punk or heavy metal, although my likes are broad. I like what I like,it doesn’t always have to be hard techno, but I’m not a jukebox. Of course I would like a dancefloor and consider the crowd, but I would never play the latest hits just to please someone. <img width="2880" height="3600" width_o="2880" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/565193fce17e9c5143ccd4df1ca567be6f69d4c0b9bd738de6c85d42f7e7a70a/8.jpg" data-mid="227512937" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/565193fce17e9c5143ccd4df1ca567be6f69d4c0b9bd738de6c85d42f7e7a70a/8.jpg" /> Back to the home, what is the most ‘you’ item in your house?I very much like my Walter van Beirendonck shirt from 1989. A lot of your references are camp and tongue-in-cheek, how true is this for you?Maybe not so much when I was younger in the 70s and 80s. They are references and subcultures that I respect, but it doesn’t have to be my references or things that I engage in. Like the gay erotic novels I collect, with titles like Of Hot Nights and Damp Beds, or Bottoms Up. Believe it or not, these novels are not easy to obtain. My favourite might be Battle of the Bulges! <img width="2880" height="1620" width_o="2880" height_o="1620" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/311039bc8f64dd960bd20007ac8bb7a924388ed99e461e49de5ac18d0c7bd87e/9.jpg" data-mid="227512938" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/311039bc8f64dd960bd20007ac8bb7a924388ed99e461e49de5ac18d0c7bd87e/9.jpg" /> i like trash culture. Are you into the camp scene at all? There is this notion that camp has gone mainstream, by making trash references main stream culture.I like trash culture, I’ve been a fan of and still like John Waters and Divine. That’s original camp. I’m a fan of the original thing. As someone who enjoys references, there seems to be a schism with the new generation in the sense that they can see things that have a clear reference, but can’t say where it was from, would you say that it is important to know? I think it’s important to know the basics. People nowadays are too eager to do things without knowing how to actually do them. Without that knowledge, like how the fabric falls and how to design without using a computer, it makes you lost and lacking in skill sets. <img width="2880" height="3600" width_o="2880" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8ec82e422d6e7750abb204a9f8a82fa48079891384738755291d0a4eae5890e9/10.jpg" data-mid="227512939" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8ec82e422d6e7750abb204a9f8a82fa48079891384738755291d0a4eae5890e9/10.jpg" /> How did you get into fashion?I first started out working as a shop assistant on a work placement for two weeks, then it became a weekend thing. After that I was a full-time shop assistant. When I moved to Stockholm I was a window decorator at the Kappahl main store, it was at Sergels Torg. Later in the 90s I was working at Paul &amp; Friends, both as a shop manager and a buyer, which made me come more into fashion. I also had my own label for hats and accessories from the late 80s until the mid-90s, which I sold to stores around town. It was called Los Ninos del Parque after a song I liked. One of the shoots actually featured Mini Andén, who became a popular model afterwards. ¶ That’s also why the 90s were so special to me, having this project besides work, it brought me in contact with a lot of people and creatives in Stockholm. I was an important thing for me, but then it started to fade away, as I was doing everything myself the scaling of the business became hard. ¶ After finishing at Paul &amp; Friends I actually did a café at Nitty Gritty for about five years, before Acne. The café was really fun, but hectic. There was a lot of cooking and I got to try my food thing. After this I realised it was stressful and it sort of took the fun out of it, I was happy letting it go when I started at Acne. i had my own label for hats and accessories. it was called los ninos del parque after a song i liked. It seems both fashion and music are quite central tenants for you. What is more true to you?Actually, food! Although I am very interested in cooking, but don’t get to do it that much and I am more into baking these days. I do it quite a lot at work, where we have chefs, but I bake as one of my tasks. <img width="1440" height="1800" width_o="1440" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5130df78752f54768adcfbe4c5b1106e2e6a1aa4d3b234db347deea711ed8824/11.gif" data-mid="227512940" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5130df78752f54768adcfbe4c5b1106e2e6a1aa4d3b234db347deea711ed8824/11.gif" /> Have you ever considered doing anything more with food?You never know, the interest is still there and I know that I can do it. ¶ The café became popular because I did things that felt new at the time. In the beginning I served a lot of soups and cakes and coffees. Then it developed and I used a lot of new ingredients such as sweet potatoes and quinoa. I actually got this gold dragon award for it, which was really fun. <img width="2880" height="1620" width_o="2880" height_o="1620" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e220568fee84be748892e4cc21d375dfc9ae6327201e5c5c549ca28fd9c60a7e/13.jpg" data-mid="227512942" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e220568fee84be748892e4cc21d375dfc9ae6327201e5c5c549ca28fd9c60a7e/13.jpg" /> i’ve just done what i feel like and still do. Have you ever felt inhibited creatively, has it been an intuitive process or have people facilitated it for you?I’ve just done what I feel like and still do. The older I get the more reluctant I am about trying and starting something new. When I was younger I didn’t care, I just did things. The times are also different, now you don’t need to physically put something out there in the same way. ✷ Marie view now Jim read now Magnus enjoy now Märta look now Fredrik explore now Nicole discover now Yuki &amp; Helen consume now R:sdesign peep now Alex devour now Colin do now Ursula act now Militza &amp; Elis dip into now Johannes peruse now Tora see now Isak &amp; Malin browse now Oscar click now Last updated: 5-Aug-2026 18:22 Location: Stockholm, SE Follow us on Instagram https://hermitwebsite.com/marta Mon, 03 Mar 2025 11:37:14 +0000 Hermit https://hermitwebsite.com/marta <img width="2880" height="3600" width_o="2880" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bd079e4da87be63804cf332bdeb8ae00354329ee1c9899cfd8c46f4643ea9152/1.jpg" data-mid="227512101" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bd079e4da87be63804cf332bdeb8ae00354329ee1c9899cfd8c46f4643ea9152/1.jpg" /> märta BjÖrn, you seem to know your way around a dough, talk me through the steps! Do I start with the flourBjörn: Yes, the dough needs bubbles. it feels magical, like this ancient knowledge—just flour, water and salt. Working creatively is both a passion and a full time job, seems like baking is your hobby!Märta: Baking sourdough specifically. I did this loaf today, but it didn’t crack the way it’s supposed to. I became obsessed with baking when I was on maternity leave, which also coincided with the pandemic, when everyone started baking. I had never baked bread before, but I thought sourdough was fun and it tastes good. You can follow a recipe, but there’s also no recipe, it’s more of an intuitive process in a way. It feels magical, like this ancient knowledge—just flour, water and salt.Sophie: Märta loves to geek out on the different types of flour, she even got her own mill. Right now it’s a challenging baking period, in that it doesn’t turn out the way she wants. <img width="2880" height="3600" width_o="2880" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4d53f64ec8473b0b03adf916d914d625dff283f242f8aab2cd40cae13ad7b464/2.jpg" data-mid="227512103" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4d53f64ec8473b0b03adf916d914d625dff283f242f8aab2cd40cae13ad7b464/2.jpg" /> So you’re struggling artistically with your loaves. What are you trying to achieve?Märta: I want more air pockets. The kitchen used to be my safe space, but now that Björn has gotten involved it’s more stressful. He’ll wake up in the morning and just say: dega! (Swedish for ‘baking’). <img width="2880" height="3600" width_o="2880" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5971996a58e5f0e1ee1b79c58e8ce32ccf0a941e98ea7c9837ab3045ed82b041/4.jpg" data-mid="227512107" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5971996a58e5f0e1ee1b79c58e8ce32ccf0a941e98ea7c9837ab3045ed82b041/4.jpg" /> I suppose he sees it as a way to connect with you!Sophie: He also learns a lot! Today he told me that when he touches the dough, the hands need to be wet otherwise the dough will stick. What does it feel like being the subject?Sophie: When Märta is shooting me, I don’t notice it so much, as I’m so used to it. But having you around makes me sweat! watching all the episodes of skam released something that was locked up in me. How did you two meet?Märta: Through work. Sophie was a producer at the production company I was with and we got together at a Christmas party six years ago. At first I was hesitant as we’d be working together. But it was the right timing, and we also had a lot of mutual friends, we had both worked on ourselves. It’s not just about giving, but also being able to receive.Märta: I actually had this therapy session in October before we met, I wrote down that my therapist said I was ready to meet someone. But I also somehow think that watching all the episodes of Skam released something that was locked up in me. It was also in December, which is a nice time to meet someone. <img width="2880" height="3600" width_o="2880" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8b4b043fbf6434b8cf5b24bc3a60c3f7bf95fab75f65dec959a17802e80a9c8a/5.jpg" data-mid="227512106" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8b4b043fbf6434b8cf5b24bc3a60c3f7bf95fab75f65dec959a17802e80a9c8a/5.jpg" /> And now you are three. What was the motherhood process like for you two?Märta: It was a very stark change of pace in life. Sophie: When we met we had very different approaches to motherhood. Märta always wanted to be a mother and I was a bit more hesitant. Märta: I was already in the process of becoming a mother, a bit older and had decided that I wanted to have a kid. And how did you decide? I recently read “Motherhood” by Sheila Heti, where she discusses whether the decision is ultimately our own or conditioned by society.Märta: That’s an ongoing question. You never regret it, but life would be completely different. Being a mother when you are a bit older is a big change, not having the same independence. But I also love it! I needed a change and a pause from partying. Now my life revolves around something else. <img width="2880" height="1940" width_o="2880" height_o="1940" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e1d35e2c56c419043425b9a6576a80db62904f2abc84390af291de536ceee23a/6.jpg" data-mid="227512104" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e1d35e2c56c419043425b9a6576a80db62904f2abc84390af291de536ceee23a/6.jpg" /> And what were your thoughts on it, Sophie, seeing as you were a bit hesitant?Sophie: It was a big decision. I never really longed for kids, but always thought I would regret it if I didn’t have children. If I hadn’t met Märta I would have waited longer. But I knew I wanted to be with her and she had already started the process. How has it changed you?Märta: It has changed me a lot, becoming less selfish, but at the same time taking better care of myself. It made me more introverted in a way, but I also had Björn in the middle of the pandemic. It was good for me, since I suffer from FOMO and I was just focusing on Björn. i had björn in the middle of the pandemic. it was good for me since i suffer from fomo. <img width="2880" height="3600" width_o="2880" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/610d97b433468145613eceb757d8f0c13d837e6f6f41e51e9ab52a162958f148/7.jpg" data-mid="227512105" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/610d97b433468145613eceb757d8f0c13d837e6f6f41e51e9ab52a162958f148/7.jpg" /> Speaking of, what are some of your favourite places in Stockholm?Kulturhuset is mighty and cool, I would often go there to watch people. It feels very like Stockholm, in the middle of the city and very accessible, which also feels very Swedish. Another place I like is Ninja Bar. I have a friend who is a chef there. I love the food and the unpretentious vibe! I also like Svedjans bakery a lot! <img width="2880" height="3600" width_o="2880" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fc3d30d902296a5d0d1c07306dc6b74902a19dc190be6c84ffb96108deebc9f8/8.jpg" data-mid="227512120" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fc3d30d902296a5d0d1c07306dc6b74902a19dc190be6c84ffb96108deebc9f8/8.jpg" /> Women feature in your work a lot! As a female photographer, how do you work with the gaze?When I started I wanted to be like the guys. As a teenager I wanted to be a skaterboy with dreadlocks, baggy jeans and a Hawaiian shirt. So that was my way of testing who I wanted to be and also with photography. The photography that I saw was made by men. That’s also why it was such a big thing for me when I started to dig through the history of photography and found Nan Goldin and Corinne Day, who used photography the same way I wanted to, using friends and family and the community around them. i wanted to be a skaterboy with dreadlocks, baggy jeans and a hawaiian shirt. As a teenager, I was always the one with the camera. I was a bit shy and wanted to be a creative, but couldn’t paint or sing. Photography was alluring because it was this male profession, and my dad and uncles were always interested in photography. I saw it as a ticket out of the countryside where I grew up, that would allow me to see exciting things and meet interesting people. So I started to take pictures of friends and did photography in high school, where I found more like-minded people. <img width="2880" height="1800" width_o="2880" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f5a9384ea7fd8202cd24a7253ef8303e794a70c297811d917446729699e0ee5b/9.jpg" data-mid="227512119" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f5a9384ea7fd8202cd24a7253ef8303e794a70c297811d917446729699e0ee5b/9.jpg" /> Did you feel like an outsider?I wouldn’t have said that then, but looking back I think that I was, that I didn’t fit. I always had friends, but I was somewhat of a chameleon.That’s what’s so fascinating with the outsider perspective, whether you actively choose it or are pushed into it.I’m still like that, I move in different social sets. I am almost trained from my background to be with different kinds of people and ease into different groups, but always still from an outsider’s perspective and with a camera in hand, that creates almost like a distance. <img width="2880" height="3600" width_o="2880" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fc9eea40c36e9a089544519e281b8edcabc6b352a7456babbdc279609750615f/10.jpg" data-mid="227512111" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fc9eea40c36e9a089544519e281b8edcabc6b352a7456babbdc279609750615f/10.jpg" /> i hate doing moodboards. Do you feel like you hide behind your camera, using it almost like a shield?Hiding and an excuse for not taking that much space, communicating that in a different way. I’m not comfortable with being the centre of attention. I was at the Nan Goldin talk the other week, it was the fourth time that I’ve seen her and this time she seemed really happy. She also talked about taking pictures because she was shy, how it became a way to approach people. My first camera was a snapshot camera and I was interested in what it wasn’t supposed to be, the anti-aesthetics, a lot of flash. My family would say it was ugly, but I find it beautiful. <img width="2880" height="1800" width_o="2880" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9faff1148ba5ccb22660d7247b950d97d35d7ba9a69a62eceb31f9931d2d7167/12.jpg" data-mid="227512114" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9faff1148ba5ccb22660d7247b950d97d35d7ba9a69a62eceb31f9931d2d7167/12.jpg" /> The question of beauty, can it be objective or is it inherently subjective? Where do you see yourself on that pendulum, there is a vulnerability and tactility to your pictures that could be considered beautiful, but there is also a friction.I find it interesting to make something boring beautiful, using the camera to see things in a different way, in that specific moment in time. That also helps with the flash, it often brings out something that is not always visible, a movement or colours, or just a reaction on a face. I like to come to a room and not be prepared and make the best of it, almost like a challenge. That’s something I love about my job, making something from what’s there.How do you unite that when working with clients, now that things are so referenced?That is really hard for me, as I hate doing moodboards, providing the image that matches the reference. This way of art directing is too forced and tends to dilute the end result. <img width="2880" height="3600" width_o="2880" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/86e08c612c6c1d128c340ff794e3818970ffa3c314bdc8906229bf264a2983da/15.jpg" data-mid="227512117" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/86e08c612c6c1d128c340ff794e3818970ffa3c314bdc8906229bf264a2983da/15.jpg" /> i’m usually nervous and so is my subject, and we meet in that space. The frequency of creative output must also be daunting, especially now that it is mostly image based?Yeah, I’m noticing a fatigue almost. People are longing to do their own creative projects, outside of the feed. A year ago I had a period of feeling like an imposter and wanting to give up everything to become a baker.Why is that the case for so many women, is it that we are met with different expectations?Yeah, there could also be the lack of role models to look towards. I’m 42 and there just aren’t that many women photographers in their 50s or 60s left. I also work in a business where youth is everything, and relevance matters. Also in Stockholm there is only space for two to three photographers at a time, there’s an element of newness to it as well. Why are you so drawn to the portrait?I love to meet interesting people and that’s why I wanted to become a photographer because I knew the camera would be a ticket to interesting communities and encounters. I learn so much from the talks and the interaction, and then I get a kick out of being shy and pulling it off. I also meet equals, I’m usually nervous and so is my subject, and we meet in that space, which is really cool. <img width="2880" height="3600" width_o="2880" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/efed299f80b0e9f5cbcb8aced92b24293427d2816826fb867921bcd5e1769ffc/16.jpg" data-mid="227512115" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/efed299f80b0e9f5cbcb8aced92b24293427d2816826fb867921bcd5e1769ffc/16.jpg" /> You’ve talked about what draws you to people, but what makes a good portrait in your opinion?If you want to capture a person, it would be where that person feels comfortable and in a mindset that expresses something. It could also be about making someone look good or interesting. What I like is when it’s not too perfect, when someone is a bit off. Maybe I’m also drawn to people who stand out and have a lot of personality and integrity, who are brave and opinionated. You’ve talked about what draws you to people, but what makes a good portrait in your opinion?If you want to capture a person, it would be where that person feels comfortable and in a mindset that expresses something. It could also be about making someone look good or interesting. What I like is when it’s not too perfect, when someone is a bit off. Maybe I’m also drawn to people who stand out and have a lot of personality and integrity, who are brave and opinionated. i like when it’s not too perfect, when someone is a bit off. Another photographer I know was trying to depict a friend, but this person just wanted to look like a filter.People would probably see my work and think that they wouldn’t want to be depicted by me. Because you’re too honest?I can totally understand it, I am not sure if I would be comfortable being photographed by me, it is like CBT in a way. Maybe it is too honest or too realistic in a way. I also try to flatter, but I don’t retouch to make you look younger. <img width="2880" height="1800" width_o="2880" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/72606ac7bf9ce93ebbf6eac3aade428a467596305f790fc3efc272bf8e9f742f/17.jpg" data-mid="227512116" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/72606ac7bf9ce93ebbf6eac3aade428a467596305f790fc3efc272bf8e9f742f/17.jpg" /> Isn’t it also about connecting?I’m very old school like that, I have my gurus in documentary photography that talk about getting closer and to challenge yourself to stay in an uncomfortable situation, since I’m a shy person who finds it uncomfortable and who’s always nervous. I think that’s a nerve that’s good for the pictures. Do you think you translate or inject that?It’s good for the session that there’s a tension. It’s not an easy thing. Friction is needed to make it interesting. In terms of wanting people to engage in vulnerability, it’s almost like lending a hand that they can choose to partake in or not.It’s a weird situation. And it’s nice to be able to see that vulnerability and have a camera to capture that moment. <img width="2880" height="3600" width_o="2880" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/64440c6c892e80a1138be98cd5234ba38e05435c4e397e908867b4ff4cd4073d/18.jpg" data-mid="227512109" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/64440c6c892e80a1138be98cd5234ba38e05435c4e397e908867b4ff4cd4073d/18.jpg" /> How is it when you capture your loved ones?It is harder. I stopped taking pictures of friends—I only take pictures of Sophie and Björn now. I somehow feel like there is this need to be me in those relationships, that I didn’t use them in some way, I’m not into that. The need to be more in the moment and not thinking that the situation would make a good picture. My next plan is to do scheduled sessions with friends. Now that life has changed, those moments aren’t really there anymore. Yeah, because you did the book “Drunk in Love”, a project spanning 15 years. It is a lot of memories, documentary of course, but it feels a lot about connection.For me it’s about longing to connect, for intimacy. I’m still very proud of it, the selection and edit and how it came out. The title is maybe bad, because people have asked me whether they are all pictures from going out. All these people have been close to me and there’s consent, they’re not just random people. <img width="2880" height="3600" width_o="2880" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/49631eaaa0cd3199034fc3fe2973cbc5d63300674b73cf63661e9b6425c30fb8/19.jpg" data-mid="227512108" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/49631eaaa0cd3199034fc3fe2973cbc5d63300674b73cf63661e9b6425c30fb8/19.jpg" /> i’m like a vampire. How do you feel about the rise of instagram photographers that take pictures of strangers in public?Some are really good and it is somehow the perfect street style photography. I couldn’t do it myself, I’m like a vampire, I have to be invited to take a picture. Only a few times in my life have I stopped someone on the street. But that is also what makes me feel like I’m a bad photographer, the fact that I can’t approach someone I see in passing. I could do it, but what would I do with that picture, it just doesn’t fit with my context. I could do it, if I was shooting within a community, but the context give it a story and an agreement in a way. Shooting people outside has also never been my thing. <img width="2880" height="3600" width_o="2880" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8e4b39fd288fbff6e7f269b21ba56325ff21972d8112c472d03285d8e1fdebdc/20.jpg" data-mid="227512110" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8e4b39fd288fbff6e7f269b21ba56325ff21972d8112c472d03285d8e1fdebdc/20.jpg" /> Why is that?I like nature, but I don’t like busy backgrounds, and find blue skies and green trees boring, but if you shoot someone against a white wall it can be anywhere in the world. I like not giving too much information away, that it’s almost flat. ❥ Marie view now Jim read now Magnus enjoy now Märta look now Fredrik explore now Nicole discover now Yuki &amp; Helen consume now R:sdesign peep now Alex devour now Colin do now Ursula act now Militza &amp; Elis dip into now Johannes peruse now Tora see now Isak &amp; Malin browse now Oscar click now Last updated: 5-Aug-2026 18:22 Location: Stockholm, SE Follow us on Instagram https://hermitwebsite.com/fredrik-1 Mon, 03 Mar 2025 11:38:24 +0000 Hermit https://hermitwebsite.com/fredrik-1 <img width="1440" height="1800" width_o="1440" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d1004cdad7b7f8f018c4906dee61cff164ee763ee739198188c3ebeedd18596e/fredrik-hero.gif" data-mid="227512686" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d1004cdad7b7f8f018c4906dee61cff164ee763ee739198188c3ebeedd18596e/fredrik-hero.gif" /> fredrik What would you say that you work with?I’m very much as a furniture designer, but working in a, I don’t know, elastic field somehow. How did you land on furniture?It was never a conscious decision, it just, like, happened. I randomly ended up at a cabinet making school after graduating from high school. I never planned on being a designer. <img width="2880" height="1800" width_o="2880" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5227f7fc2d3846949c0aec51bbd4d20de940acdff9356d2f5a8f8ca5e0393d79/fredrik-2.jpg" data-mid="227512689" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5227f7fc2d3846949c0aec51bbd4d20de940acdff9356d2f5a8f8ca5e0393d79/fredrik-2.jpg" /> how did you end up going in that direction?I was, like, always into environments, like habitats or something like that. At the same time I was, like, super interested in sleaze culture at large when I was growing up. Can you define sleaze culture?I love, like, comics, horror movies, sci-fi. I was never, like, into high-tech stuff. I always really liked old school fifties movies—wacky, strange and funny stuff. And of course music, like punk rock and hip-hop and grunge that was coming out in the nineties while I was growing up. Skateboarding was my life. Every day, skateboarding, watching movies and stuff like that. I was bored with the people and my surroundings. I grew up pre-internet in a rural area of Skåne. Skating became my escape. We didn’t even have asphalt in the streets! <img width="2880" height="3600" width_o="2880" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ec72fabb51560ec679b3b3d39fa1274893abb89a7bebc4c7744d09a61402f506/fredrik-3.jpg" data-mid="227512690" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ec72fabb51560ec679b3b3d39fa1274893abb89a7bebc4c7744d09a61402f506/fredrik-3.jpg" /> Then where did you skateboard?People’s garages or at school. That became my school, in a way, always looking and searching and somehow find my spots. i wanted to be a pro skater. is that where the spatial awareness started?Maybe, yeah. Since I was into this mishmash of culture, I wanted to turn my childhood bedroom into my own little world. I started to decorate it and maybe subconsciously that was a sign. People around me started seeing me as a creative person, but I didn’t see myself that way—after graduating, I wanted to be a pro skater. <img width="2880" height="1800" width_o="2880" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cd7bda892c79fa317acbc006a74e3bcc4cdb24790c4a3094656e97094b8ced9b/fredrik-4.jpg" data-mid="227512691" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cd7bda892c79fa317acbc006a74e3bcc4cdb24790c4a3094656e97094b8ced9b/fredrik-4.jpg" /> what were the nineties in Sweden like?My nineties were very much watching TV—when MTV came it was fucking amazing. I was, like, taping all those shows. 120 Minutes and Alternative Nation and of course Yo MTV Raps. I had my VCR ready to tape all the shows that I loved. What was your childhood bedroom like?I always loved playing with action figures and would build small worlds for them. Then, of course, I had Nirvana posters all over. I wanted the feeling of outer space. I started mixing antiques with found objects, like a dragon sculpture from someone’s trip to Thailand with a futuristic lamp. Lava lamps and stuff like that. A mix of strange things, like seashells that I collected. What was it like getting into school and having to adhere to a practice?I could never concentrate on anything growing up. School was extremely boring to me and I would always dream of other places to be. It was just a struggle. But cabinetry was the first time I felt hyper-focused and I could zoom in on something. I got really passionate about it. Not that I had an extreme passion to push boundaries, more an intuitive process and respect for the craft. I wanted to learn. What did you start out making?Like carving spoons and stuff like that. First it was basic, getting to know wood as a material, which at the time was new to me. The first assignment was making a stool, a classic thing, right? I’ve kept that stool at my mom’s place and I saw it the other day and it’s actually really close to what I’m doing now. <img width="1440" height="1800" width_o="1440" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/25d501fa4363031d9d3bbeaf2bd51a4a5f6c187f2939f28eb3b017735cee3070/fredrik-51.gif" data-mid="227512692" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/25d501fa4363031d9d3bbeaf2bd51a4a5f6c187f2939f28eb3b017735cee3070/fredrik-51.gif" /> a good chair—don’t quote me on this—gives me as much pleasure as a good song. would you say that form, rather than function, is what gives an object meaning?Oh yeah! A hundred per cent. An interesting chair, don’t quote me on this, gives me as much pleasure as a good song, movie or book.Why chairs?Many reasons. It has one function, which is sitting, nothing else, pure function. It’s easy to tell if a chair is different from another chair, and whether it looks interesting somehow and if it’s comfortable. How important is comfort to you?It depends, comfort is one function, but not the only function. Like this one chair that I have which is this old Irish thing. The seat is really low and the back tall. You can just tell it was used for something special. Put it next to other chairs around a table and it doesn’t work! It has a specific function, but I don’t know what. I’m like a fly drawn to a piece of shit with that one, I’m drawn to it. <img width="2880" height="3600" width_o="2880" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d91fb94bb941f5d7f5ef666765246b1f60e8022d662f2617ae222a560e845e6a/fredrik-6.jpg" data-mid="227512695" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d91fb94bb941f5d7f5ef666765246b1f60e8022d662f2617ae222a560e845e6a/fredrik-6.jpg" /> What does materiality mean to you?There’s beauty in fancy materials but in my own practice I want to use simple and cheap materials, which have a value, but aren’t precious. Do you have a favourite material to work with?Pine, because it’s abundant. It’s easy to get a hold of and it’s soft. It has a pattern that almost makes it wild in a way. It has an interactive quality to it that I think is very interesting.what else?Anything that’s easily available. I only work with crap materials in a way. A lot of my work is about using what’s around me and then make it glow or vibrate somehow. Tell us about that!By using colour in different ways, like psychedelic and fluid colour combinations, I always try to create a sense of light. I love all sorts of colours, but when you put them together they have to create tension and feel luminous. <img width="1440" height="1800" width_o="1440" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1bce2dcd0475af02249cbb87572413693e6a4a89746e5574e9deef41a11425a6/fredik7.gif" data-mid="227512696" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1bce2dcd0475af02249cbb87572413693e6a4a89746e5574e9deef41a11425a6/fredik7.gif" /> The psychedelic element, is it a conscious thing or a subconscious energy that you’re attempting to bring to the work?It started out as a literal thing. Being fascinated by light phenomenas like nebulas and northern lights. Then when I was looking at the grain in the wood it also looks like a psychedelic pattern. By adding floating colours to it you’ll never look at wood the same again.i love all sorts of colours. How did you come to treat wood that way?I had a clear vision of how I wanted it to look but actually achieving the end result turned out to be really tricky. I spent a year—my last year at the RCA in London—developing that technique by mixing my own stains. I tried all these different processes and just couldn’t get it right and almost gave up. <img width="2880" height="1800" width_o="2880" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6a27fb4edd1d871e59f3789cf7fee448588b9a5f43bbd9997e4de480e2362490/fredrik-7-low.jpg" data-mid="227512687" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6a27fb4edd1d871e59f3789cf7fee448588b9a5f43bbd9997e4de480e2362490/fredrik-7-low.jpg" /> what was that like, knowing where you wanted to go but not knowing how to get there?It was a transformation from what I had been doing. After cabinet making school I moved to Stockholm to attend Beckmans. I knew I had the skills in the craft, but didn’t know the design element. I spent my time there talking to all the students and I was really into the conceptual fashion of the moment—Margiela painting everything white—the anti-design movement, using standard fonts but using them in an elevated context. I was making simple furniture and painting everything white with a brush to take the attention away from the material. I was so fed up and bored by the cool and sleek Nordic design. I couldn’t relate to it at all. By making really simple stuff and painting it white, the design and shape could be the essence. That was the starting point. ¶&nbsp;Then later at the RCA it was very experimental. The atmosphere there was right, but also very challenging—the criticism was very harsh. One teacher even told me that anyone could do what I was doing, which was sort of the point. Then I started experimenting with colours but I came to a dead end when I couldn’t achieve what I wanted. Then one night I was at a party and there were these beautiful, colourful garlands hanging from the ceiling and they fell down and got soaked, so they started dropping pigment and it was impossible to get the stains out from the wooden tops. And I think that it is my practice now, to dig where I stand. And it was that simple, I started using garlands. So your work is just a party!Totally! Everything was process-based design back then but this was so simple that I was ashamed to admit it. The story I was telling everyone was only about the early experiments. Meanwhile this was your Newton moment, the apple fell on your head.Haha, yeah. But then I realised that after a year that the colour fades, which wasn’t intentional. Now I make my own colours using pigments to mimick the simplicity of the garlands. i was so bored by the cool and sleek nordic design. <img width="2880" height="1800" width_o="2880" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4f609f55bf2ee40a93a2a5383221d2bff1ba41031a6ce5483ef2835c617bb47f/fredrik-8.jpg" data-mid="227512697" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4f609f55bf2ee40a93a2a5383221d2bff1ba41031a6ce5483ef2835c617bb47f/fredrik-8.jpg" /> Where are you now in your practice?I’m in a sweet spot at the moment, balancing Joy Objects—a furniture company that I started with three friends. Joy has become my space to create things that people can bring home. My personal work has always had a functional element, but Joy has an even clearer mission statement: “Everyday objects for everyday use”. It might sound like a no-brainer, but for me it was a revelation: creating chairs that are affordable and accessible, without compromising on design, and creating a brand around it that still feels like me. I’m super proud of that. What’s the best thing you’ve ever made?It must be the Joy chair. It’s the essence of everything I’ve been doing. It’s so direct and straightforward, but it also has something else to it. In a way it’s like a sandwich, with different ingredients, materials and colours, so it can keep evolving. It’s also becoming a system, so it can transform to other pieces of furniture, like tables, stools, benches and storage units. <img width="2880" height="1800" width_o="2880" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/07d2cfa81a4b5b312899386bfb8bc27fde97c9ac6761fe4e7e4329d4ddba494c/fredrik-9.jpg" data-mid="227512698" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/07d2cfa81a4b5b312899386bfb8bc27fde97c9ac6761fe4e7e4329d4ddba494c/fredrik-9.jpg" /> For someone who makes objects for the home, what is home for you?It’s a safe zone, somewhere to be private. Where you don’t care about anyone else. what do you do to relax?I cook food. All types of stuff, nothing fancy. I enjoy doing everyday tasks, like doing dishes—all the things you feel like you have to do. That’s actually a happiness practice, maybe you’re just good at finding joy! What kind of spaces do you feel more at home in?The first one is called Glada Hörnan, my local pizzeria—“Joy Corner”—that place is amazing. And then this Colombian cafe called Kaffe Express Colombia. <img width="2880" height="3600" width_o="2880" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0fd69ea65065700727a9925adb178aaceeb33578fc6c1379ae059b2294c12dca/fredrik-10.jpg" data-mid="227512699" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0fd69ea65065700727a9925adb178aaceeb33578fc6c1379ae059b2294c12dca/fredrik-10.jpg" /> How did you and Bodil meet?Yeah, I’m noticing a fatigue almost. People are longing to do their own creative projects, outside of the feed. A year ago I had a period of feeling like an imposter and wanting to give up everything to become a baker. i couldn’t do what i do without bodil. Where do the two of you connect?We have the same type of humour. We laugh a lot. We have a lot of fun just hanging out together. <img width="1440" height="2700" width_o="1440" height_o="2700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/440406f2ae2fb92dc4c8dd4b2c7c53eab69307a070b3220a6ba04259113fcc5a/fredrik-12-low.jpg" data-mid="227512688" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/440406f2ae2fb92dc4c8dd4b2c7c53eab69307a070b3220a6ba04259113fcc5a/fredrik-12-low.jpg" /> What is it like both being artists?It’s great, we talk a lot about our projects. I couldn’t do what I do now without her. There’s a constant dialogue. We talk about work all the time, but in a fun and challenging way.what have you learned from bodil?To allow for things to take time. I was so impatient before, still am, I was always rushing to the next project. Through her I learned to be meticulous and make the best out of something and really work out the details thoroughly. <img width="2880" height="1800" width_o="2880" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5ae1db6e1988f7dac7cde0f1846c71a668a8444d7eaf1ac89cef27a556cc7220/fredrik-11.jpg" data-mid="227512700" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5ae1db6e1988f7dac7cde0f1846c71a668a8444d7eaf1ac89cef27a556cc7220/fredrik-11.jpg" /> You also have a wonderful daughter, Karin, what has she inherited from each of you?She has the worst morning mood, which I blame Bodil for. She’s incredibly creative, which I think she also got from Bodil, because I don’t feel like I’m creative. Bodil and Karin can sit and draw and make up stories together. I enjoy watching them.dID YOUR identity change when you became a parent?I don’t feel like I’ve changed. I’m still the same, but now I have a family. We listen to a lot of music together. She likes most of the stuff I like, like punk rock, heavy metal and rap. The music should be loud. Sometimes I wake up them with a song and she’ll ask me what song it is, asking who it’s by, really listening.if your home was a song, what would it be?Probably The Diamond Sea by Sonic Youth! <img width="2880" height="1800" width_o="2880" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d9eb9cb0a1a350403b3cc0f89946a1ef47329f152093c656ca3ede5e8926019f/fredrik-12.jpg" data-mid="227512701" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d9eb9cb0a1a350403b3cc0f89946a1ef47329f152093c656ca3ede5e8926019f/fredrik-12.jpg" /> weird, strange and cute at the same time. what’s your most prized possession?This exhibition catalogue from a Peter Shire show. He made a really nice drawing and dedication in it for me. It means a lot to me. But actually, my favourite thing by far is this tiny ceramic thing that looks like a horse to me, but Karin, my daughter, claims it’s a camel. It’s decorated with flowers. It has a container on the top. It looks like an ancient incense holder. It looks weird, strange and cute at the same time. That might have been my dearest thing until it broke. But I kept the scraps. <img width="2880" height="3600" width_o="2880" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a5d66a7bba0fd823bc75960496de9e587ee3f4198ac9c6b6e915d57da1253123/fredrik-13.jpg" data-mid="227512702" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a5d66a7bba0fd823bc75960496de9e587ee3f4198ac9c6b6e915d57da1253123/fredrik-13.jpg" /> have you ever found any treasures by any good designers?Twice, they were both by chance. The first was my Ettore Sottsass table that I found at Myrorna in Ropsten. They had it as a display table and had covered it with a table cloth and a bunch of glassware. I also found an Axel Einar Hjorth piece—this was way before the hype—immediately when I saw it I noticed how geometric, clean and brutal it was. It looked like something a farmer had made out of necessity. It was just so obvious, in a way.<img width="2880" height="3600" width_o="2880" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1255e19586b80dc7159b5e4938bb0cc2e1e832d5f1b22a8f0e6ccd11ed4b7db5/fredrik-16.jpg" data-mid="227512703" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1255e19586b80dc7159b5e4938bb0cc2e1e832d5f1b22a8f0e6ccd11ed4b7db5/fredrik-16.jpg" /> you work internationally, but primarily in Sweden and Denmark, what are the biggest difference in terms of design practice?Danes love culture and are very proud of their design legacy.Whereas in Sweden we don’t have that many masters to dictate the work. But it’s hard to create work in Sweden, because it almost feels like culture is despised here. For me design is culture, but the economy and mindset in Sweden holds it back by only considering the numbers.What about the law of jante? Swedes tend to loathe anything that stands out, is that something you’ve been impacted by?When someone is trying to do something new, people are very critical of it. Like “yes that looks good, but can you sit on it?” That’s why it’s so important to me to try and make stuff that is very personal, but stiill well constructed and durable. I just want them to say it’s a great fucking chair! ✿ i just want them to say it’s a great fucking chair!<img width="2880" height="3600" width_o="2880" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6a90c36cb2a80f31db4ea82fcdae4b50a45df0318b129ef2415c40351006b53b/fredrik-17.jpg" data-mid="227512704" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6a90c36cb2a80f31db4ea82fcdae4b50a45df0318b129ef2415c40351006b53b/fredrik-17.jpg" /> Marie view now Jim read now Magnus enjoy now Märta look now Fredrik explore now Nicole discover now Yuki &amp; Helen consume now R:sdesign peep now Alex devour now Colin do now Ursula act now Militza &amp; Elis dip into now Johannes peruse now Tora see now Isak &amp; Malin browse now Oscar click now Last updated: 5-Aug-2026 18:22 Location: Stockholm, SE Follow us on Instagram https://hermitwebsite.com/nicole Mon, 03 Mar 2025 11:38:15 +0000 Hermit https://hermitwebsite.com/nicole <img width="1500" height="1875" width_o="1500" height_o="1875" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e8c96d22a43ca8a58a3f6d936af5f8fe2eba5eab0419e6648aebc9cda3629478/nicole-hero.gif" data-mid="227512600" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e8c96d22a43ca8a58a3f6d936af5f8fe2eba5eab0419e6648aebc9cda3629478/nicole-hero.gif" /> nicole &amp; gustaf What is home to you guys?Gustaf: Nicole!Nicole: Gustaf! The fact that we moved in here together, sold all our stuff and got all this stuff together.Gustaf: Nicole is the boss, aesthetically.Nicole: I do have great taste! It looks like a very sterile home, but it’s not! people must assume that you would be precious about your things, but Surprisingly you aren’t. Why do you think that is?Nicole: It’s a combination of my upbringing and my childhood, I lived in a sort of hippie home with my single mother, a turtle, a rescued bird, our cats, a few frogs, and some hedgehogs we saved from our backyard. It was an unconventional upbringing which I’m extraordinary grateful for. My mom would let me do anything I wanted to in my room. She worked part-time in a hardware-slash-paint store and she’d let me re-paint the walls whenever I wanted—it was truly my free-space. She’d also re-paint an re-decorate our entire house with found items in the streets or antiques she would get for a good price. So I think her relationship to objects and the way she thought me about them was that everything is temporary. That’s something I still have as a mindset. Even if something is in my possession currently, it doesn’t mean it’s mine—I just get to treasure it and love it for a while. <img width="2880" height="1912" width_o="2880" height_o="1912" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1a460cc2bd6b1eb67d4655bb8729e3ddf3935db425c7851701f5e54410c77843/nicole2-hires.jpg" data-mid="227512593" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1a460cc2bd6b1eb67d4655bb8729e3ddf3935db425c7851701f5e54410c77843/nicole2-hires.jpg" /> i had the dentist make me special orange braces.What was your favourite colour back then?Nicole: I had very strange periods that were kind of obsessive. I would only wear orange from head to toe from the age of seven till I was eleven. I even had the dentist make me special orange braces. I had orange hair and my mom got me orange lipstick. After that I had my blue period, not as intense, but it was still very blue. <img width="2880" height="1800" width_o="2880" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7285679f37f7269e59fc5942fb7b584f991d71a3706fdf4e5243a48e3699ae10/nicole3-hires.jpg" data-mid="227512594" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7285679f37f7269e59fc5942fb7b584f991d71a3706fdf4e5243a48e3699ae10/nicole3-hires.jpg" /> Can we talk more about your mum? what was she like?Nicole: She passed away the day after I turned 19. She was a beautiful crazy creature, in all the best ways. When I was around 12 years old she became a foster parent. She started taking in kids that would live with us for different amounts of periods. So I had about five or six different siblings during my upbringing. i had about five or six different siblings. What was it like to share your mother in that way?Nicole: At that age I didn’t understand it, but I knew they needed her more than I did. After years of therapy I realised that I had been deeply disappointed that she didn’t focus more on me. At the same time, I’m super happy about it because it made me a super independent person. Someone who has an understanding of other people’s needs and how they might be bigger or harder than all of mine combined. It also made me grow up very fast, which has its pros and cons. What were you like as a kid, apart from the orange obsession? Nicole: Apparently I was very geeky, or that’s what I have been told from people who knew me when I was very little. I’ve been told that someone was surprised I was a successful stylist now, since I was a nerdy little girl back then. But I think I was just a very curious, shy and sensitive little individual. <img width="2880" height="1884" width_o="2880" height_o="1884" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d62c9b088b11cdc6d2fc12128f1b5e95e7da2943982fc2dcc0a49d41ae3ed309/nicole4-hires.jpg" data-mid="227512595" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d62c9b088b11cdc6d2fc12128f1b5e95e7da2943982fc2dcc0a49d41ae3ed309/nicole4-hires.jpg" /> isn’t that quite Swedish, the tendency to question someone’s success?Nicole: Totally! I was also very much into clothes very early, but we didn’t have any money, so we would always go to thrift stores. My mom would always sew things for me. She would also make stuff for girls in my class. She once made me some Dalmatian print pants, which she also had to make for a bunch of girls in my class, so in my third grade school photo, everyone is wearing them. How did you start styling, was it an intuitive thing?Nicole: I’m self-taught. My friend and I started a fashion label in high school that was called This Old Thing. We even had a fashion show at my favourite club back then—Jazzhuset—when we weren’t even old enough to get in. When I started styling, I didn’t even know what it was. I was doing windows at Weekday and someone came up to me and said I should be a stylist. Gustaf, you also work creatively, what is it that you do?Gustaf: I drive the car, carry the things. No, but I make music. Our worlds really don’t merge that much, apart from when Nicole shot a video for me. when i started styling, i didn’t even know what it was. <img width="2880" height="3600" width_o="2880" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/79a6c7e1dbb5421061cb98c453c8f29e5da22f758f45334803346e8557015b56/nicole3-hires.jpg" data-mid="227512588" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/79a6c7e1dbb5421061cb98c453c8f29e5da22f758f45334803346e8557015b56/nicole3-hires.jpg" /> it must be nice to live together as two artists, you understand eachother.Gustaf: I mean I have a deep respect for what she does and try to support it.Nicole: Which you do, you are my biggest supporter in life! I couldn’t do it without you! How did you guys meet?Gustaf: I was hungover on our first date.Nicole: And I was being annoying. The first date was uneventful, but something really cute happened. Raf came along and he is usually very shy but when we were sitting on a bench talking, he jumped on Gustaf’s lap He was like, “Daddy!”Nicole: He was saying, “that’s the one!” Gustaf I booked a flight to Berlin the same night or the morning after. We both have a tendency to jump into relationships. So when she moved back to Stockholm I moved in with her. We’ve spent almost 24 hours a day together ever since! <img width="2880" height="1800" width_o="2880" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a360e52f5a3ecb41be61649154ebee6be06a6120b8f7bfc530981f6919a50e9e/nicole6-hires.jpg" data-mid="227512596" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a360e52f5a3ecb41be61649154ebee6be06a6120b8f7bfc530981f6919a50e9e/nicole6-hires.jpg" /> you spend a lot of time in nature together.Gustaf: We sometimes go to Nacka, where we go mushroom picking. But our favourite place is this spot south of Stockholm called Karshamra where they serve pizza. Nicole: It’s nice to be in nature with Raf. To let him run free. Gustaf: His eyes light up and you can tell he just wants to run off. How did Raf enter your life?Nicole: He was my 30th birthday present to myself. I wanted a dog for so long. I was on the website Hundar Utan Hem. I wanted this white Saluki dog but it could only live in the countryside. They came back with another option, which was Raf. He had been living on the streets of Ireland for some time. That’s the only thing they knew about him. he is so kind and sociable, but very independent, no?Gustaf: It feels like he has been living with fairly friendly people, otherwise he would be more troubled. Nicole: Yes, he has very little trauma. the first thing people ask you is what you do, where you live and whether you own that place. Having lived in both Sweden and Berlin, where do you feel most at home?Nicole: I miss Berlin so much, I have a lot of friends there that I miss a lot. The openness is the best part of it. But both cities have their pros and cons. How does Stockholm affect you?Nicole: It affects me a lot, which scares me sometimes. There’s something about Stockholm that makes me a way more strict and organised person. Gustaf: There is a mental tension here. Nicole: It’s hard to get people going. When I have openings at my studio I’m always surprised when people don’t show up, but then I know myself that when Friday comes I’m down to stay in with my wine, while in Berlin that wouldn’t happen. Here I’m a workaholic, more capitalistic. The first thing people ask you is what you do, where you live and whether you own that place. <img width="2880" height="1800" width_o="2880" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/51a9770092f1c4b475af11fed28cfd021075052c7aa16e72a799d22dbe073051/nicole7-hires.jpg" data-mid="227512598" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/51a9770092f1c4b475af11fed28cfd021075052c7aa16e72a799d22dbe073051/nicole7-hires.jpg" /> Now tell us about AMAZE!Nicole: It started out as a collaboration between me and Cornelia Blom, then my other friends Sara Forsberg and Anders Haal, but now it’s only me. When I still had my apartment in Hornstull I started having a gallery there. My landlord came by asking if I actually lived there and I just told her that I lived like that, surrounded by art, which she seemed convinced by. She was even, like, “It would be so nice to live like this!”. But you do actually live with a lot of art.Nicole: My favourite art! Gustaf: Your friends’ art! Nicole: One of my favourite pieces is this one by my friend Julian, it’s made from this ancient wood pillar from an old German house, a bearing beam. It looks like a dude with a hat, with beautiful Swarovski crystals embedded in it. My current party trick is to bring out the UV light on the piece by Fabian Bergmark Näsman and make it glow in the dark. And I have a sculpture from Anton Alvarez, a wall piece, he’s only done a few, so I’m very lucky to own one! <img width="1440" height="901" width_o="1440" height_o="901" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/260dab0a19f95c85d91fc0f29469c9ac74d4bd065b022de3ee165f2c28803d9d/nicole7-lowres.jpg" data-mid="227512590" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/260dab0a19f95c85d91fc0f29469c9ac74d4bd065b022de3ee165f2c28803d9d/nicole7-lowres.jpg" /> the process of working with glass is so violent, so difficult and hot and mega hard. you Recently started working with glass.Nicole: I was working with ceramics in Berlin and went to this old Swedish lady’s class. At some point I realised that I wanted to take it more seriously so I started studying at Konstfack and the first class we had was glass. I always thought it would be too difficult for me to do but then I became completely obsessed with it and exclusively worked with glass for the whole three years.What made you obsessed?Nicole: Just the process. The process of making it is so violent, so difficult and hot and mega hard. I love pushing myself to the limit.Gustaf: And you don’t fully get it until you see it finished.Nicole: I would come home with stuff and he would be unenthused.Gustaf: It’s so intense, you have to do everything quickly—as soon as it cools down—and it’s so heavy.Nicole: But I love it! It became an obsession to make everything bigger and bigger. Usually there’s two of you in the workshop, but because of Covid, I was doing everything myself, my own way, not following the ‘correct’ process. My pieces have bubbles and folds in them, even holes which, according to my tutor, could make them crack. There’s something about making a discipline your own, which is what you seem do with everything you do. Is it a conscious choice or just you doing you?Nicole: I have a very hard time doing things the ‘right way’ in every aspect of life. Like, our friend’s kids are so aware that our home is not functional, calling out the dirt, or the fact that our furniture is uncomfortable. Gustaf: Like, “where’s the sofa?” Nicole: I love that I have a partner that finally accepts my not so functional way of living, it’s an aesthetic choice, of course, like, all of our wine glasses are super annoying to drink out of, but they are so beautiful! The way I do my work is dysfunctional and annoying and can take longer than it needs to. <img width="2880" height="1800" width_o="2880" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5618863c5c4c68c16eb1ab71b6866850009f277440d54722f2a5200f3faf7451/nicole9-hires.jpg" data-mid="227512599" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5618863c5c4c68c16eb1ab71b6866850009f277440d54722f2a5200f3faf7451/nicole9-hires.jpg" /> it’s a bit of a circus. Who are your characters and how do you develop them? You seem to have created a very personal approach.Nicole: I found a narrative that I like and come back to. It’s a made up world that you create: one day you’re a clown, the other day you’re a strange person in the forest that hasn’t seen another person for twenty years—Gustaf: A hermit!Nicole: Or a person living on the moon. I have certain tools I use a lot when I approach things. Structures, shapes and volume, if I like big pants with a small top etc. These are the practical sides to styling that people don’t talk about enough, the essentials.Nicole: I’ve had a lot of assistants throughout the years and most stylists rely on them for prepping work, but since I use so much second hand clothing, it’s almost impossible not to just do it myself. You can present huge mood boards to clients, but there’s always an element of improvisation on set. <img width="2880" height="1800" width_o="2880" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/68e57fd38904e3b839bc8173d72bbf452d2c6deedb42abde8678c670d428ffaa/nicole-last-hires.jpg" data-mid="227512597" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/68e57fd38904e3b839bc8173d72bbf452d2c6deedb42abde8678c670d428ffaa/nicole-last-hires.jpg" /> it’s a mood rather than a direct reference.Nicole: Clients want to see what you do before you do it. When they ask me, I always tell them that I don’t know yet. Styling is mega unpredictable and in the moment. When I do sculptures I have a vision in my mind, because I can’t draw, and then I can just make it.everyone thinks they’re a stylist now.Nicole: And maybe they all are? I was just in Paris doing an art performance at the Centre Pompidou, and it was the same time as Paris Fashion Week. It’s been a couple of years since I attended Fashion Week properly, but I went to the shows one day. Years ago I would get so dressed up and run around like crazy to see all the shows. But now it’s mostly influencers attending shows, and buyers, of course, but it’s really just a spectacle for social media. It really doesn’t serve much of a purpose to actually attend a show anymore cause it’s very rare that you get that magical special vibe. I remember going to Telfar shows in New York years ago—that shit still gives me goosebumps—it was magic. But fashion is fun, maybe the spectacle will just keep growing and then maybe there needs to be a huge crack or vortex, where it gets ruined in order for something new to emerge. ✷ Marie view now Jim read now Magnus enjoy now Märta look now Fredrik explore now Nicole discover now Yuki &amp; Helen consume now R:sdesign peep now Alex devour now Colin do now Ursula act now Militza &amp; Elis dip into now Johannes peruse now Tora see now Isak &amp; Malin browse now Oscar click now Last updated: 5-Aug-2026 18:22 Location: Stockholm, SE Follow us on Instagram https://hermitwebsite.com/yuki-helen-1 Mon, 03 Mar 2025 11:38:08 +0000 Hermit https://hermitwebsite.com/yuki-helen-1 <img width="2880" height="1620" width_o="2880" height_o="1620" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7437d6bf31e3abe845f9cae28d0105fd2eb48d9f595ad6aa72d40bf519d84788/yuki-helen1.jpg" data-mid="227512508" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7437d6bf31e3abe845f9cae28d0105fd2eb48d9f595ad6aa72d40bf519d84788/yuki-helen1.jpg" /> yuki &amp; helen Ren just precedes to do impressive falling techniques. Who is he most like out of the two of you?Helen: I think he’s more like Yuki, a performer. He’s just super confident and dances a lot, loves the Macarena! <img width="2880" height="3600" width_o="2880" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ea3f8982f0c72e5930209c0d9201956bb701b064f2db9a6e55b499de475943bb/yuki-helen2.jpg" data-mid="227512491" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ea3f8982f0c72e5930209c0d9201956bb701b064f2db9a6e55b499de475943bb/yuki-helen2.jpg" /> What are some things you admire about each other?Helen: I really like the contrast between his stage persona and how he is every day, soft and gentle.Yuki: Tidy!Helen: Yes, tidy. You’re a really nice boyfriend, caring and thoughtful.Yuki: Obviously, a bit of the same, apart from the different personalities. Helen is very organised in life.Helen: I like the fact that you’re quite gentle and we don’t have to fight each other in social situations. Neither of us are the more dominant personality.Yuki: I’m literally here all the time, a hermit. Yuki, you’re known to wear red, when did that start and does it have any significance?Yuki: It started about six or seven years ago. I just like the colour and think I look good in it.Helen: It’s a nice colour on you. neither of us are the more dominant personality. <img width="2880" height="1800" width_o="2880" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9b7b414a64e511485ac74822bfdf36fd0b837655e9c1775122d31e5b0490e263/yuki-helen3.jpg" data-mid="227512505" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9b7b414a64e511485ac74822bfdf36fd0b837655e9c1775122d31e5b0490e263/yuki-helen3.jpg" /> While Helen, you’ve got a very extensive and not-so-kid-friendly Commes des Garcons collection, do you ever wear it around Ren?Helen: Actually I have this special Japanese apron now. After I get dressed in the morning I put it on, it’s like an apron with long sleeves.Yuki: It’s like an old apron that people would wear on top of the Kimono. It’s something that my gran used to wear. It’s called a 割烹着 (kappogi). So you are basically putting yourself in a straight jacket! do you two have the same taste?Yuki: Somehow we do, but we also appreciate eachother’s own aesthetics. Especially for fashion.Helen: A lot of our reference points are the same, even if our interpretation is different. You wear my clothes and I wear yours.Yuki: We’re the same size.Helen: Sometimes I wear Yuki’s shoes, but he can’t wear mine.Yuki: Since I’m Japanese, apparently I have wide and fat feet. Apparently Westerners have more of a flat foot, less of an arch. Ren got the Japanese side of it. <img width="2880" height="3600" width_o="2880" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dfabc2f1cfe37a01e363ba2298a0f01a81bbef3526882702379f52fca3aedd4c/yuki-helen4.jpg" data-mid="227512506" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dfabc2f1cfe37a01e363ba2298a0f01a81bbef3526882702379f52fca3aedd4c/yuki-helen4.jpg" /> It must affect how people walk.Yuki: Maybe. This is just my guess, but since we sit on our knees with the feet behind on a tatami and at a low table might be what has caused it. My parents’ generation had to sit like this until the dad came home. But I am always home, so! Tell us about the bed situation you have created with the tatami mats.Helen: They came from a place in Malmö. I think they might be produced in China, so the quality is below par. Then we have a Japanese futon on top. Initially, the idea was to be able to put them away so that Ren could have a play area. Now we all sleep in bed together at night, but one of us usually falls out.Yuki: And of course that’s me. now we all sleep in bed together at night, but one of us usually falls out. <img width="2880" height="3600" width_o="2880" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a90578539ec10c209b5b40128eddb72111633f1da85511db65feada249e44630/yuki-helen5.jpg" data-mid="227512512" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a90578539ec10c209b5b40128eddb72111633f1da85511db65feada249e44630/yuki-helen5.jpg" /> What are some other traditions that you blend together in your family?Yuki: I think I am very integrated.Helen: You are the most British Japanese person I have ever met. Like your sense of humour.Yuki: I think so too! Even just appreciating the bad food in the UK.Helen: I guess in our family I do a lot of cooking, like semi-British food. Like last Christmas, since Yuki doesn’t really have an experience of Christmas, we did it in a British way, had a tree, ate British food, things like that.helen, i remember you telling me you once had gout at christmas.Helen: Basically, I was in my early twenties, we had goose for Christmas. Then my dad took the leftover goose meat and fat and made a cassoulet, which is a rich French stew with beans, breadcrumbs and sausages.Yuki: You basically OD on fat.Helen: All of the fluid in the foot crystallises. I was too embarrassed to tell people at work it was gout, so I told them I had sprained my ankle. Felt like I was Henry VIII.i felt like i was henry viii. <img width="2880" height="1800" width_o="2880" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a213faae97804dab86fb7f694c9b129a129354c5fa6004dc20c41ce3b6702be6/yuki-helen6.jpg" data-mid="227512513" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a213faae97804dab86fb7f694c9b129a129354c5fa6004dc20c41ce3b6702be6/yuki-helen6.jpg" /> What about Japanese influences?Yuki: In Japan before each meal we say “いただきます” (itadakimasu) which means thanks for the food, thanking the person who cooked but also for the ingredients. Since Japan had more of a pagan religion before Buddhism and every thing was considered sacred.Helen: It’s also for my benefit, so I know how to be polite. It’s also nice to do it for Ren’s sake. We say it when we leave the house and when we return.Yuki: Instead of “see you later” which is a one-way greeting, the person leaving says “いただきます” (itadakimasu) and the person at home say “行ってらっしゃい” (itterasshai). When you come back, the person who comes back says “タダイマス” (tadaimasu) which means “I’m home” and the person at home greets back “おかえり” (okaeri) which means “welcome home”. <img width="2880" height="3600" width_o="2880" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9075e0f3ab3326a0b5cbc3cc624f9a630c3789645f111e4fe4ddb83a1e3c2283/yuki-helen7.jpg" data-mid="227512514" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9075e0f3ab3326a0b5cbc3cc624f9a630c3789645f111e4fe4ddb83a1e3c2283/yuki-helen7.jpg" /> japan has some similarities to Sweden.Yuki: There’s a greater similarity between Sweden and Japan, than between the UK and Japan. The way people respect each other, are more reserved and almost shy. The cleanliness. How food and fashion is appreciated, people dress well and eat well. That’s probably why Japanese people find it easier to settle here and vice versa. I’ve noticed there’s more quality Japanese places here than in London. Not in quantity but in quality.Which ones?Yuki: There’s one in Vasastan called Totemo Ramen. I really like them because of how they present themselves, the restaurant is so tiny, like it is in Japan. It’s just the counters and a few tiny tables, so what you do is basically get in, eat ramen and get out. There’s no side menu, just ramen. get in, eat ramen and get out. <img width="2880" height="1800" width_o="2880" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9cb3bef7cbfd4d134d0dbee01c35e07c530448c8952edafba50a6922feea4482/yuki-helen8.jpg" data-mid="227512515" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9cb3bef7cbfd4d134d0dbee01c35e07c530448c8952edafba50a6922feea4482/yuki-helen8.jpg" /> What drew you to Sweden?Helen: I wanted a different pace of life. I had heard about Swedish work culture: fair working conditions, reasonable working hours, long holidays. I actually expected it to be boring, but was pleasantly surprised. I needed a change from living in Dalston and going out all the time.What was it like for you to leave London?Yuki: Similar to Helen. The life of touring with a band, getting wasted all the time, was fun, but had a lack of substance. I started to question whether I could do it into my old age—do I want to be the old guy at the show? Then the pandemic happened and it was a good time to make a change. Before that, Sweden was not on my radar. My impression was that it was cold and expensive. But moving here was a different experience. Helen, you said once that nothing had happened during the pandemic!Helen: Met Yuki, had a dog, got pregnant, moved house, got engaged and married. I didn’t leave Sweden for a year. <img width="2880" height="3600" width_o="2880" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dc207578741862fea240375a79614c9b2da81bfec3a9edf859a9a0c1d2929642/yuki-helen9.jpg" data-mid="227512516" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dc207578741862fea240375a79614c9b2da81bfec3a9edf859a9a0c1d2929642/yuki-helen9.jpg" /> What was it like getting back on stage with bo ningen?Yuki: Yeah, it was beautiful! It felt pretty great to be back on stage, to my real self. I almost forgot that I am a musician. The first ever show after Covid was actually a festival in the UK, called End of the Road. We were sort of like a secret act after all the other acts had finished playing, and we were on at two in the morning. It felt so bizarre for like five minutes, just being out in front of the crowd, there were so many people, it took a while to take in. It felt really fresh and that was the first time in ages that I actually felt nervous before a show. i wouldn’t say we’re dad rock but we’re not a young band anymore. As a band you’ve managed to carve out your own sound, how conscious has that been and how easy is that to maintain when the industry is so focused on commerciality? Seems like you have somehow managed to stay true to what you set out to do.Yuki: We treat rock music as a form of art rather than a part of the music industry—I find that really boring and kind of despise it. We have managers, but we kind of manage the direction ourselves. Since we’re not that big, the label doesn’t tell us what to do. It’s still us four, we’ve known each other for 15 years or so, spending more time with each other than anyone. We kind of love and hate each other, kind of like family. We’ve have also aged as a band. I wouldn’t say we’re dad rock, but we’re not a young band anymore. <img width="2880" height="1620" width_o="2880" height_o="1620" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/139196ef8ff0bd63a8495c6160f90058d890096324d2ba46a60dd155041301e7/yuki-helen10.jpg" data-mid="227512517" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/139196ef8ff0bd63a8495c6160f90058d890096324d2ba46a60dd155041301e7/yuki-helen10.jpg" /> How essential has London been to the band? you had your start there, the scene drew you there.Yuki: It was all guitar music back then, which is back again now. It was absent for a long time. When we started out, in the post- Indie phase, we came as a sort of shock to the East London scene, we were all Japanese and had super long hair, crazy outfits and a stage show. No one knew what to think. Who would you say your fans are now?Yuki: In the UK a funny thing is happening. Our original fan base has stopped going out. Now we have kids coming to the shows. They don’t know that we’ve been playing since they were about five years old. They think they’ve just discovered a new band from Japan. We also have the parents of these kids, slightly older than us, who are really into music. And of course old geezers. my usual bed time is when i often start playing! Does the rock and roll myth still exist?Yuki: It has kind of gone. Our tours have become softer, maybe even a bit tame. My usual bed time is when I often start playing! For someone as chilled as you in person, but with such a strong stage persona, it must feel somewhat draining?Yuki: It’s more draining when I come off stage and it’s expected that you still have to be that person. Or if we do a fashion shoot, there’s no music there—it’s just a set and usually it’s early in the morning and it’s expected that we perform. We’re musicians not models. <img width="2880" height="1620" width_o="2880" height_o="1620" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0bc8bde389f250085dfa2d0a662b91aac561a58e9b690afd4697a0901278a499/yuki-helen11.jpg" data-mid="227512518" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0bc8bde389f250085dfa2d0a662b91aac561a58e9b690afd4697a0901278a499/yuki-helen11.jpg" /> Having been at Urban Outfitters and now at SneakersnStuff, you’ve been a part of shaping youth culture, what has that evolution been like?Helen: Something I’ve noticed from the people around me is that it is fine to age out of the demographic that you are pitching towards, but you need to recognize your own growing irrelevance. And you need to understand that you’re not part of the zeitgeist anymore. I’m a thirty six year old mother, not part of a genre defining moment.But at some point you also were! sometimes people just continue to draw on that sole reference of having been part a resurgent trend.Helen: I have a theory on the “resurgence” of Indie Sleaze, it is just a way for people our age to make themselves relevant again. I’m not sure it is happening again, but it makes people our age feel part of the conversation. It’s only being perpetuated by people of our generation out of nostalgia, I don’t see it being referenced again by what people are wearing. It’s not being adopted by Gen Z. <img width="2880" height="1800" width_o="2880" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c05d2575d8ed41e136a9333bab77738a533ec41c7578caba27b11df500579357/yuki-helen12.jpg" data-mid="227512519" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c05d2575d8ed41e136a9333bab77738a533ec41c7578caba27b11df500579357/yuki-helen12.jpg" /> sometimes when people talk about sustainability i just want to detonate a vest! What are some observations that you have made In terms of what the streetwear industry looks like, the constant creation of hype?Helen: It’s definitely been a bubble economy and everyone has been invested in the hype machine, but we are past the peak of that now. Sustainability concerns are coming into it now, and people are starting to reject the cahoots that the industry has contributed to, the merry-go-round, driven by the number of releases. The thing is, the majority of people buying it are not the final customers, but resellers. How does the industry deal with that shadow economy?Helen: There are raffle mechanics and other measures that tries to ensure that the product goes to the end customer, but at the end of the day a sale is a sale. Everyone has kind of been benefitting from the way that it is at the moment. But it’s changing, some people are starting to get bored of it, there’s fatigue around the sustained attention required to keep it all going. <img width="2880" height="3600" width_o="2880" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1c453c2140e2f33631b242cff7c8ae0f97674e03449ecedd6244ff5a82c10df7/yuki-helen13.png" data-mid="227512502" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1c453c2140e2f33631b242cff7c8ae0f97674e03449ecedd6244ff5a82c10df7/yuki-helen13.png" /> Are consumers really that loyal anymore?Helen: I don’t think so, there isn’t much brand loyalty. But then again there’s a geographic split. For years, no one in the US was wearing Adidas shoes, it was all Nike. But the next drop can change everything, as long as the right person is attached. Crocs is a huge brand now, because they’ve started operating the same way, by the drop model. And it still works.Helen: It was brought around by the pandemic. I’m a bit bored of that now, I want to wear something uncomfortable and restrictive! Bang on trend with the straight jacket then! ● Marie view now Jim read now Magnus enjoy now Märta look now Fredrik explore now Nicole discover now Yuki &amp; Helen consume now R:sdesign peep now Alex devour now Colin do now Ursula act now Militza &amp; Elis dip into now Johannes peruse now Tora see now Isak &amp; Malin browse now Oscar click now Last updated: 5-Aug-2026 18:22 Location: Stockholm, SE Follow us on Instagram https://hermitwebsite.com/ransoneringsdesign-1 Mon, 03 Mar 2025 11:37:18 +0000 Hermit https://hermitwebsite.com/ransoneringsdesign-1 <img width="2880" height="1800" width_o="2880" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6f5e585e3c5117d1f12f688ad3d569794e60ab292444b4e6429f4d4d1b0b5902/rd-1.jpg" data-mid="227887064" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6f5e585e3c5117d1f12f688ad3d569794e60ab292444b4e6429f4d4d1b0b5902/rd-1.jpg" /> josefin of ransonerings-design believes in signs WHY the name ransoneringsdesign?Ransonering is a Swedish word that means “to ration”, which was a practice used during wartime, when people were only given the essentials. It relates to the project in that the signs only focus on the essentials, the information and the letters are sparse—it’s not made to be aesthetic, but practical. <img width="2880" height="1800" width_o="2880" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6fc81648f9216ea2babe510bad5a99744b0b163b88ebbb23adf6d88b64825d19/rd-2.jpg" data-mid="227887067" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6fc81648f9216ea2babe510bad5a99744b0b163b88ebbb23adf6d88b64825d19/rd-2.jpg" /> How did the idea to document signs come about?It started with my friend Agnes and I noticing style patterns in signage around the city, which we photographed and shared with each other. I like that it is non-design, not intended as design elements, but that someone has made choices more or less on purpose that turn it into accidental design. Signs that were originally practical, intended to inform, but have evolved to be more visual. <img width="2880" height="3600" width_o="2880" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/65eff22d333328841009bfcb05d4df5f8557a113d1379d37d1eaba76f679e8db/rd-3.jpg" data-mid="227887066" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/65eff22d333328841009bfcb05d4df5f8557a113d1379d37d1eaba76f679e8db/rd-3.jpg" /> What’s a typical Swedish sign?Abroad there is always often more information on the signs, while the Swedish signs are simple, clean and sparse in text. the owner tried to fix it, but didn’t get the font right. What makes a good sign in your opinion?When we first started out I didn’t have a clear idea, but over time I have developed more of a sense of what I like, a feeling that it leaves me with. Personally not so sure about signs with illustrative elements in them, but that is not a good enough reason to exclude them. One of my favourite signs is a Pizza sign, where a part of the sign broke and the owner tried to mend it, but didn’t get the font right. It’s so charming and shouldn’t work, but it somehow does. <img width="2880" height="1800" width_o="2880" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/57f61489bfb34936e6f44f10254a36ce9454714b76b4c475cc6de9df65410163/rd-4.jpg" data-mid="227887065" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/57f61489bfb34936e6f44f10254a36ce9454714b76b4c475cc6de9df65410163/rd-4.jpg" /> Does the sign make the place or the place make the sign?The two definitely have to align! But I also like places that have kept the old signs hanging, even though the place has changed. ✺ Marie view now Jim read now Magnus enjoy now Märta look now Fredrik explore now Nicole discover now Yuki &amp; Helen consume now R:sdesign peep now Alex devour now Colin do now Ursula act now Militza &amp; Elis dip into now Johannes peruse now Tora see now Isak &amp; Malin browse now Oscar click now Last updated: 5-Aug-2026 18:22 Location: Stockholm, SE Follow us on Instagram https://hermitwebsite.com/alex-1 Mon, 03 Mar 2025 11:37:55 +0000 Hermit https://hermitwebsite.com/alex-1 <img width="2880" height="3600" width_o="2880" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/57b907075a1c1d569ad289a94433dfa448716379f7a0de2d12d48010e8ddfbcc/1.jpg" data-mid="227512375" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/57b907075a1c1d569ad289a94433dfa448716379f7a0de2d12d48010e8ddfbcc/1.jpg" /> alex what’s up with the birds on your patio?It looks a bit rough now since they’ve pooed all over the place. It all started with a set of blackbirds, a mom and dad. In the beginning they’d fly away, but towards the end of the summer, when the hatchlings came, I could sit on the balcony while they were there. ¶ I was doing a spring clean on the balcony and lifted the bench outside, underneath there was a nest with a tiny blue egg. Then there was nothing more for a couple of days and the mom seemed to have left, but then suddenly there were two more eggs, then four, and eventually three of them ended up hatching. They like to eat sunflower seeds, that’s a hit, while Ryvita crackers are often left alone.YoU livE quite rural.The park next to my house is magical—it’s not huge, but you can still walk around a bit and there’s this stable that has horses. I’ve never ridden, I’ve been a bit scared, horses are such big animals. <img width="2880" height="1927" width_o="2880" height_o="1927" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/becd836fcb13f227546ef67fb3d55e7dc67d51051982d67d8254b12f3a9450f7/2.jpg" data-mid="227512376" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/becd836fcb13f227546ef67fb3d55e7dc67d51051982d67d8254b12f3a9450f7/2.jpg" /> i brought a friend to tyresta national park and started hugging. but You have the aura of someone who rides bareback into the sunset. you also hug trees—how did that start?A few years ago I swapped services with a client of mine. It was like some spiritual therapeutic thing. He was the one who told me to hug a tree. So I brought a friend to Tyresta National Park and started hugging.I love that you would go that far when you’ve got trees right outside.Yeah, I know! At first I didn’t want people to see, but now I can do it without feeling embarrassed. Sometimes when I come home from work it’s so good to just get a solid hug. The feeling is empty, yet very grounded. When I stand there it’s almost like I meditate, it cleanses me a little. For some time I was told that I needed to ground myself, that I was mostly open from the crown and had no contact with the ground, spending too much time in my head. Hugging trees is good medicine for that!<img width="2880" height="3601" width_o="2880" height_o="3601" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ed820d4b7800b07253d536965cc539cf982cd1f4dcda14955fab27af7ef81cea/3.jpg" data-mid="227512377" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ed820d4b7800b07253d536965cc539cf982cd1f4dcda14955fab27af7ef81cea/3.jpg" /> you’ve tested a number of alternative therapies, what’s worked best for you and what’s the strangest thing you’ve tried?My spiritual journey began when I was 20, just after my dad died. That’s when I met my friend Vanessa. I first went to her as a medium and she soon became a friend. She’s been a spiritual guide for me ever since. ¶ At first I wanted her to make contact with my dad, but then it developed into a kind of therapy. Vanessa is the one who recommended me to go to Pia, who I’ve now been a regular client with for many years. It's like massage therapy. What appeals to me about this kind of therapy is that it does not get flat or one-dimensional. It helped me to not go so much to my head for answers, but to work with the body and let it speak. ¶ A few years later I was considering where to go on holiday, and suddenly I get a text from Vanessa, who I hadn’t talked to in a long time. She told me that she’d received a strong indication that I should go to India. ¶ First I went to Goa with a friend, and then went on my own and had the classic India journey cliché that changed my life. That was when I met Mooji, who is a very wise man. Now whenever I go to India, I go for four to five week periods with large groups of people, all sitting with Mooji. It’s something around 1,700 people. <img width="2880" height="3601" width_o="2880" height_o="3601" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8147b899b86ac6d5a4892e08a1911ffab9f0b658f463749e2c00695104c262c1/4.jpg" data-mid="227512378" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8147b899b86ac6d5a4892e08a1911ffab9f0b658f463749e2c00695104c262c1/4.jpg" /> it was such a powerful experience that i just cried. what does that energy feel like when there are so many people meditating in one room. does it make it hard to feel centred within yourself?It was such a powerful experience, that I just cried, I couldn’t understand why, so I just kept going. One insight I’ve gained through meditation is that we all mirror each other, that we’re all one and the same. <img width="2880" height="1801" width_o="2880" height_o="1801" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b9887862d43ac5cc4e13d5c74b56dd13d7b8fe5964e4957a72de557c8f0b3f6b/5.jpg" data-mid="227512379" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b9887862d43ac5cc4e13d5c74b56dd13d7b8fe5964e4957a72de557c8f0b3f6b/5.jpg" /> How did Oqma come to be?When I first moved to Stockholm when I was 19 I started working at Hårgänget and Eva who now co-owns Oqma with me, was also working there. I never would have imagined that we’d be running our own salon together. We just click, it’s a nice collaboration and we have a very deep love for each other.is there a philosophy behind the salon?That’s what’s nice about it, there was never a rigid form to stick to, more of a feeling of an open and kind atmosphere. Eva is incredibly good at seeing and greeting everyone who comes in. That’s something that I appreciate and have learned from her. It could be a part of getting older, but it just feels dated to be tough and cold, when it’s so much nicer to be open.How did you develop the interior?I asked one of my long-time clients Eva Johansson, who is an architect, if she was interested in helping us with the interior, which she was happy to do together with her boyfriend’s architecture studio Norell/Rodhe. It wasn’t based so much on a trend, more of a lasting feeling. When we created the logo there was a very clear sense of what we wanted. Eva and I were looking through old magazines and found this logo from a Blur album that we liked. Jens, who helped us with the logo, captured what we were after. it feels dated to be tough and cold. One thing you’ve become known for is how you cut a mullet.I’ve thought about what haircut that I always loved to cut and mullet is one of them, maybe that’s why!how often should we wash our hair?There are probably many hairdressers who can answer this better. I think it’s good to follow the gut. If it gets greasy quickly then there may be something off with the scalp and you may need to get used to a little grease or use a good shampoo to balance the scalp. If you wash it too often, you wash away the natural protection and the scalp starts to produce more tallow. It can also come down to what shampoo you use. For example, if you’ve got really fine thin hair and use a deeply moisturizing anti-frizz shampoo, you will most likely get greasy hair quite quickly. <img width="2880" height="3600" width_o="2880" height_o="3600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2c717afcebaf9711660060fd2ac92cc16dcaf52c246c0d4ffc723132309517ea/7.jpg" data-mid="227512380" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2c717afcebaf9711660060fd2ac92cc16dcaf52c246c0d4ffc723132309517ea/7.jpg" /> How did you find your flat and when did you move in?I bought it in 2011. A funny story is when me and a guy that I hooked up with after a rave ended up at my place. I was in the kitchen and he was in the bed talking about how he had been in a similar apartment before somewhere in the area with some girl that he used to go out with. I asked him who it was and it was the girl that I bought the apartment from! [Laughs] Small world. If you were to choose a song that has an energy like your home, what would it be?I think maybe like a Hare Krishna chant meets Take My Breath Away.What is home to you, what brings that feeling?Intimacy and security. Especially when I travel, I notice a need to create that feeling whereever I stay. I feel we are like animals in many ways, creating a home where we are, with what we got. it felt like the last squeeze of a kalles kaviar tube. Do you have any rituals?This fall I had a bath every day to wash the day away. It was an intense fall—there was a lot going on inside. It felt like the last squeeze of a Kalles Kaviar tube. ¶ Often in the morning I sit down to meditate, just to check in. And in the evening I practice gratitude for the day that I have had before I go to bed. ¶ During the pandemic I noticed people tended to complain, fret the small stuff and focus on negativity. We all have issues we go through, but instead of focusing on the negative, it helps to redirect the focus to the positive impact it has also had. It changes the vibration in the body a lot. <img width="2880" height="1801" width_o="2880" height_o="1801" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/41da3c8f3831ca2a7d903a30010c55da2d097af4ad28233d6fa443a4f827a95d/8.jpg" data-mid="227512381" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/41da3c8f3831ca2a7d903a30010c55da2d097af4ad28233d6fa443a4f827a95d/8.jpg" /> grandpa was an atheist. Did you get your spirituality from home?I think so, without it ever being something that was talked about. Grandma is a believer, while my grandpa was an atheist, but it worked for them. My mom has always been very open to spirituality and I have probably inherited that from her. do you see a big difference between STOCKHOLM and Northern Sweden, where you grew up?I feel it when I’m back in Umeå or when I’m with people from there. It’s a different vibration, more down to earth. <img width="2880" height="1801" width_o="2880" height_o="1801" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/552f76c6106f9a4decc7cd352513f095ace31bb109110fc0179e6e0f92379c4d/9.jpg" data-mid="227512382" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/552f76c6106f9a4decc7cd352513f095ace31bb109110fc0179e6e0f92379c4d/9.jpg" /> What are some of your favourite spots IN AND AROUND TOWN?Erstadviken. I love the sea and I like to be in my own company. ¶ I feel most comfortable at home, at work and at a meditation group that I’m part of—we see each other every Sunday. I also like spending time at my friend Fangssong’s restaurant Peony near Globen, they have great Chinese food. ¶ COW is a recurring place, scent is important to me. Even how someone smells without extra scent, how ones breath or skinn smells like. I love perfumes. With the previous perfume I bought, the goal was to smell a bit like a My Little Pony that I had when I was little, like plastic. When I go there I come with a feeling of something that I want to recreate. Once I’m done with a scent I have a hard time going back to it. The smell of a really greasy scalp and then add the smell that gets stuck in your hair and clothes after frying is the worst after a dead rat. the goal was to smell a bit like my little pony, like plastic. <img width="2880" height="3601" width_o="2880" height_o="3601" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eba361501ebd0e2b1b24b45e26684fc0d72afbe95954f99a61c892875c91d2e0/10.jpg" data-mid="227512383" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eba361501ebd0e2b1b24b45e26684fc0d72afbe95954f99a61c892875c91d2e0/10.jpg" /> Another place you spend a lot of time is at Studio Orm, a small pilates studio. Tell us about your practice.It’s a great studio and I love Emma who runs it! I thought pilates was with a ball, but there is not a single ball in the studio. Someone commented that the machines look like they belong in Berghain. ¶ For me pilates it’s like deep diving within. I believe that our belief systems affect our self image which affects our posture, how we move and carry ourselves, reacts and so on. With pilates I get access to places in the body to work with not only physically but also on a deeper level. You start from the inside, with your core and working your way out. It’s like you’re a flower, blooming. Such power! I have never been this dedicated to any form of exercise before. It’s hard not to notice the panties on the wall, what does the piece represent to you?Self-love and acceptance. For a while I had a huge pussy complex. I even forced my sisters and friends to show me theirs. Luckely that is something that I’ve managed to let go of.Kill, marry, snog:Kill: Fear and limitation. Marry: Myself, maybe a little cheesy. Woody Harrelson! Snog: Everything you can taste in life without losing yourself. ✺ Marie view now Jim read now Magnus enjoy now Märta look now Fredrik explore now Nicole discover now Yuki &amp; Helen consume now R:sdesign peep now Alex devour now Colin do now Ursula act now Militza &amp; Elis dip into now Johannes peruse now Tora see now Isak &amp; Malin browse now Oscar click now Last updated: 5-Aug-2026 18:22 Location: Stockholm, SE Follow us on Instagram