Lina Söderberg

Name of the artwork

Cumulonimbus

 

Travelling from somewhere to my home, I stopped to recharge and stretch my legs, take a deep breath of the afternoon air and lift my gaze from the road to the skies. It was a mesmerizing evening sky, slowly shifting forms and colors. There were thin clouds, stretched out into lines and patterns, chaotic and precise. I wanted to stop time, to prevent the light from changing and the lines to dissolve. To keep this sky as my possession. But of course that is not possible, and I am thinking, as a maker, as someone who makes things up, there is only one way to really own something. And that is to use your imagination and make it again, in your own way, with your own hands in a material of your own choice, like steel or paper or words.

The atmosphere has expanded its territory in my consciousness. It is a process that has been going on for years and I can’t say when it really started. It has gone from being a transparent empty space, a medium to just see through, into a massive ocean of air. Sometimes singing full of wings, sometimes raging, throwing trees around and drowning valleys in water. Maybe I am not alone with this experience. Maybe the weather has become a powerful entity in the minds of many. We hear about it on the news. We inhale it in to our bodies with every breath, powers beyond our horizon.

Lina Söderberg has her master degree in Fine arts in arts and crafts, with specialization in Iron and steel/ public space from the University of Gothenburg HDK, Valand, Campus Steneby, where she now works as a lecturer. As an artist she is interested in the properties of iron and the perception of the human mind: to see what lies between the lines, and fill in what is missing.