Colour swatch

Half a year into my master's, Malmö Art Academy shut down because the covid-19 pandemic, and I had to move my studio practice home. It wasn't so easy, because I rented a second-hand apartment together with my partner who also worked from home. I could no longer work with the "soiling art forms" I was used to. Instead of pigment jars and bags of soil, I found myself in a domestic environment where the available work materials were plastic bags, cartons, brochures, and so on.

So in the spring of 2020, I started collecting little monocrome paint samples that I found on food packaging. I cut out 2x2 cm squares, sorted them and glued onto paper strips to make a colour swatch. I used it to find colours out in the public that corresponded with the indoor colours.

A large part of my usual work consists of moving material from the outside in. In this work, I instead brought the colours outside. The work resulted in photos as well as a kind of logbook for all the colour matches I found. There you can read lines such as "GoGreen lawn" or "Pripps Blue sky".