granit.

35mm / pinhole / 2024

granit. explores the passage of time in a rural village in northern Bohuslän. The myths that live here, and the humans' feelings and rituals before their own disappearance.

I have realized that the project is about time, and therefore also about death. It is also about magic, rock carvings, the power of myth. About losing control.

Humans can neither control the passage of time, nor our own mortality.

Every moment is a moment closer to death.
Every photograph a ghost, or a future ghost.

During my work I became more and more fascinated by the camera as a device. A magical device that freezes time; it is the closest we will come to controlling it. The philosophy of the project needed to be reflected in the choice of tools. I built a small pinhole camera from a matchbox, and chose not to use any other equipment. I wanted to control the photographs as little as possible and not use advanced equipment that wants to imitate — or elevate — the human gaze.

In an attempt to eliminate the gaze, I wanted to investigate what happens instead, when light passes through a tiny, tiny hole and gets caught on film. Through this simple form, I hoped to see what the light had to show me, what was captured when I let the light control the depiction of time, instead of the other way around.

I wanted to experience the coincidence of the craft and the magic of the world.

This magic, that is hidden from the naked eye, can perhaps be captured in a simple matchbox? For it shows us something else, something invisible to us. It seems to document the disappearance of the individual; the threads of our temporary existence intertwine and stretch across space and time.

Do we become immortal? Timeless? One and the same? Or, nothing at all?

Bottna, August 2024

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