Tempera paint is made using very simple ingredients: one egg, a little water, pigment. The canvas made of cotton is grounded with animal glue and chalk. The motifs often derive from my fascination for anonymous design in the landscape or in cities, a chimney, some tools, a pair of scissors, a glass bottle or something.

A wooden building was deconstructed in Stockholm, one out of many over the years, and the wooden beams were sent down to Småland where I live. The company in charge of this work wanted me to make two wooden sculptures using the old material. With the beams there came some of these old hand-forged suspending irons. Two of these  arranged together were my motif in the painting executed in 2016. Using these simple materials, far from to-day´s conventional acrylic paints and plastic coated canvases,  created quite different conditions and limitations. It was like turning back 20 000 years and feeling the kinship with cave painters of those years.