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“My Arctic is…” Exhibition Workshops for Participatory Artworks
The idea in our workshop was to bring a fun and easy way for Arctic Congress attendees to take part in art experiences and have a small creative piece to show to other attendees
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Greetings From the Arctic
The workshops were designed to foster cross-cultural connections and environmental dialogue through artistic expression. This initiative aimed to engage young people from Arctic and near-Arctic regions.
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Visual Explorations by Young Islanders in the Arctic
To get an insider perspective on young people’s thoughts about being an islander in the Arctic region, we carried out a workshop in a local school where the students were asked about their thoughts and experiences from their life on the island.
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Exploring Sustainable Portraiture in Art Teacher Education
This two-week workshop encouraged students to explore identity through digital media and portraiture.
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The Precious Eggs of the Eider Duck
This essay presents Wence Sørmo’s process and reflections on making wooden eggs to help the vulnerable eider duck, which is an important species for the local cultural heritage in Helgeland.
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Grass Shoes – A Walk in Landscapes
This essay lifts the crafting tradition of grass shoe making and its significance for forging close ties between nature, culture and one’s own identity. It seeks to overcome divisions between culture and nature, human and non-human.
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The Fishermens’s Mittens of Helgeland
This essay concerns a Community Art project that invited the participants of the spring school 2021, Living in the Landscape (LiLa) to cross borders by the art of knitting a pair of Fishermen’s Mittens.
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Observation of Change
The OOC (2023–2025) collaborates with forest restoration efforts in Junkerdal National Park and serves as an educational platform.
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Living With the Snow in the Landscape
In this text, I examine my work through three interrelated aspects: winter as a natural scientific phenomenon, winter’s aesthetic, and winter as an activity environment.
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Rewilding Mind
Rewilding is based on a nature conservation principle that highlights how fragmented and endangered ecosystems do not provide sufficient habitats for endangered species.
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