Spira

2026 — Blown glass on hand-turned wood

Three sculptures on a cream backdrop: two crumpled smoky-grey glass tops and a frosted blush-pink cushion cap on turned grey-green, charcoal and red-brown wooden stems, in window light. — Photo: Sara Danielsson

Spira takes its starting point in the forest and is a continuation of the work Närmare 1:9, which explores the inheritance of a forest and the responsibility of caring for it for future generations.

A wide smoky-grey glass top with a crumpled, crinkled surface and glossy underside on a tall charcoal-black turned wooden stem flaring at the foot, with window light on the cream floor.

An upright, bud-like glass top, clear with a smoky green-grey tint and a crumpled surface, on a slender leaning wooden stem stained grey-green, against a cream backdrop in window light.

Photo: Sara Danielsson

A tilted, cushion-like frosted blush-pink glass cap with ribs radiating from a central dimple, on a chunky turned red-brown wooden stem against a cream backdrop in window light. — Photo: Sara Danielsson

Five sculptures grouped on a pale pink paper backdrop: crumpled or cushion-like glass tops in blush pink, smoky grey, pale yellow, clear grey and mauve on dark turned wooden stems of varied heights.

The work holds a tension between our desire to manage nature and nature’s own force and direction. The question of how we can care for something that also has its own life and its own sense of time lies at the heart of the work. Spira becomes an abstracted image of nature, a way of approaching the forest through form, material and embodied experience.

The glass was blown using a textile form as a reference, while the wooden element was hand-turned. I made both parts myself.

Material: Blown glass, hand-turned wood
Exhibition: Undiscovered Flora, Farsta Galleri; Clair Obscur, Galerie Gabel
Location: Stockholm and Biot, France

Three sculptures by a rough whitewashed wall on a concrete floor: a pale yellow pillow-like glass top on a dark brown stem between crumpled smoky-grey tops on black and grey-green turned wooden stems.

Close-up of a satin pale yellow glass top with plump, pillow-like segments and creased seams; behind it, out of focus, a crumpled smoky-grey top on a dark stem in sunlight.

Seen from above, a frosted blush-pink glass cap with ribs radiating from a central dimple, resting on a turned warm-brown wooden stem with visible grain, on a pale grey floor.