In my memoirs, I have been interested in archetypal and gender-transgressive traits, which can reflect people's early experiences of themselves and the world around them. As a theoretical background, I have used Foucault's genealogy, which is about "tracing the origins of ideas and practices, not to find their 'true' origins, but to reveal the power structures and historical processes that have shaped them".

In my portraits of children and young people, I have experimented with placing them in different situations, clothes and contexts. With the question: How do we feel and how do we experience ourselves, dressed in the roles we are already expected to represent and switch between in different contexts as very young people? Are we comfortable or for some reason not particularly comfortable, or outright uncomfortable? Do we feel connected or lonely?

LOST CHILDREN
The Lost Children project originally consists of one hundred and fifty portraits of people who were young in the 30s and 40s in Europe. The images are created from photographs that I found in archives of missing persons after World War II. I have then interpreted these photographs in textiles to achieve a soft and tactile expression. A recurring theme in my work is cultural norms and patterns in society. What memories did these children and young people have of their upbringing?