HANDWOVEN THREAD
The Magic of Glass Beads
Some things simply find you. You’re not looking for them, not even thinking about them - yet they’re there, calling you, and before you know it, you’re already entangled in them - both literally and figuratively. That’s exactly what happened to me when I decided to create a Viking Age-inspired beaded necklace.
TRADITION
Sunwait - A modern tradition of waiting for the light
Sunwait finds its meaning amid the short winter days, the long evenings, and the colourless landscape. It is not a grand ritual, just the simple act of lighting one candle each week for six weeks, bringing a small but helpful rhythm into everyday life that makes it easier to get through the darker season. In Swedish it is called Väntljusstaken.
MEDITATION
Útiseta - The Ancient Art of Sitting Out
Útiseta - literally "to sit out" - was one of the ancient spiritual practices of the Old Norse tradition. Its essence is that a person sits alone in nature with their senses open - often at night and in places regarded as sacred - in order to receive visions, come into contact with gods, spirits, or ancestors, and gain insight into their own fate (Ørlög).
CREATING
Remembering the North - Bracelets with glass beads
It feels as if this is the way my soul living in a body far from Scandinavia - can still receive "nourishment," and then pass the result on to someone else who is open to it. I don’t see them as mere pretty decorative accessories, but as harbors, burial mounds, craft workshops, and the people who carried these objects on their clothing and around their necks. I feel that through them I’m connected to that land and that time - something my soul is very strongly bound to.