“In 2004 I made the book Trying to Dance, and since then it has lived a life of its own, just as books should. For me it is more than a book: the images on which it was based constitute a universe of their own, and working then had a liberating effect on me as a visual artist.

I lived mostly in New York, but also in Värmland, and travelled a lot in the United States and Europe. Mentally I was in between worlds, between realities, between the urban and the rural. This was also a period when I questioned and doubted the importance and the relevance of the medium for me.”