My favorite work to create is layered mixed-media painting using acrylic, ink, pumice, textiles, and hand-cut paper. I’m drawn to building surfaces that feel playful but also slightly uncomfortable. Through my Frocasian figures, I explore identity, gender roles, inequality, and the contradictions within contemporary culture. I also create large black-and-white wall sculptures that push drawing into physical space.

I find inspiration in everyday human behavior, social structures, pop culture, fashion, music, news, memory, and personal experience. Growing up between Swedish and American cultures shaped how I think about identity and belonging. I’m inspired by conversations around race, gender, class, power, and vulnerability, but also by humor, patterns, street life, and quiet emotional moments people often overlook.

I would use $25,000 to develop a new body of work during my upcoming ISCP residency in New York, deepening my research into gender equality, power, labor, care, and the ways social expectations shape women’s lives. The funding would support materials, fabrication, transportation, studio production, and professional documentation for large-scale mixed-media paintings. It would also help me host open studios, invite dialogue with curators and the community.