I am ViskansDotter—born by the river, shaped by its currents, carrying its sediment in my hands. My body knows the language of water, of fibres, of pigments fermenting in silence.

I am intrigued by the ecopoetic, sensory state of Colour entanglement, where perception fluctuates between light, plants, fragrance, water, sensuality, human and more-than-human life—microbial, botanical, elemental.

Colour is not static; it breathes, decays, transforms. It holds memory. A material intelligence beyond human perception, shaping and shaped by the ecologies it moves through.

My work emerges from this entanglement: from the symbiosis between bodies and pigments, from the semiotics of material transformation, from the posthuman entanglement of mind, matter, and microbial life. I have carried other life within me—my body has been host, altered, intertwined. Perhaps this is why I sense the permeability of materials, why I listen to what exists between, beneath, beyond.

I grew up in the forest outside Borås, in an old house where time folded. We lived alongside our ancestors, in a landscape shaped by generations before us, their presence still imprinted in the land, in the river Viskan, in the Oxala Lake. To me, knowledge has never been abstract—it is lived, embedded in materials, in fibres, in water, in collective memory.”

I delve into the plants, their medicinal properties and complex slow fermentation processes for making colour, food, and fibre and approach a world of complexity. It is, for me, an intimate feedback to the ecological heritage, the rituals, the intricacies of cultivation, creating methods, colour, food and textiles, associations with care, and healing of life and water. I rely on microorganisms, the weather, animals, and water and focus on human and non-human-like bacteria interconnections to bring out complex processes, which can reveal stories with which to tell new stories for an ecological future and CARE.  

I started to study biology to become an osteopath, but later, I changed to study Textile Art and received a BFA and MFA from Gothenburg Univ. I have studied with Indigenous Maori in Aotearoa for two years during the pandemic, Rongoa and Raranga, including pre-and post-colonialism. I have worked with scientists at Uppsala University with water and the brain and exhibited nationally and internationally.