I found a forest at the bottom of the ocean

‘The Ocean in the Forest’
Group Show at Wanås Art Foundation
Sweden
2024
Curated by Milena Høgsberg
Work acquired by the The Wanås Art Foundation

Please begin by closing your eyes. You will now visualize that you are sitting on the sand in front of an ocean. You hear waves gently crashing in harmonious rhythms.
While you contemplate the ocean, it invites you to swim in it. As you submerge yourself you take a moment to float timelessly. You hold your breath and dive into the immensity of the ocean. As you dive deeper and deeper your body dissolves into eternity. As you float in this vastness, you see a light coming from the bottom of the ocean. Your body becomes weightless as you realice this glowing light is sunlight in a forest, a forest you see from above like a bird in the sky. While you gently swim and gravitate into the forest like a feather falling from the sky your feet gently touch the ground and you feel the warmth of the sun in your eyelids, hear the birds sing and feel the cool breeze of the wind. You feel the urge to walk this oceanic forest. You pay attention to each of your steps and the sound of the crunching leaves under your naked feet. You naturally synch your breath with every moving muscle. From far away, you hear the sound of waves crushing in the sand. In the middle of the forest you encounter a large translucid jellyfish that emits a melody. The jellyfish resembles a oceanic deity that invites you to touch it  without any chance of harm. It silently invites you to drift in time with it, to play it, to transform it’s light patterns into melodies. Take your time to merge into the jellyfish in the forest in the glowing peace of it’s spirit. Now, as you once again walk into the direction of the sound of the crashing waves to go back home, you hear the birds swimming in the sky, whistling a song that narrates stories of other visitors. Once again, you suddenly find yourself back where you were, siting in front of the ocean as you gently open your eyes.  Immediately you feel the inviting need to dive back in.