Jonathan Widegren

The airborne threat is something abstract, something invisible – sometimes perceptible, sometimes not. It is whatever we agree that it is. It’s witchcraft, miasma, Coronavirus, smog, greenhouse gases…

My degree project is a sculptural exploration of what exists in the borderlands of the intangible. In my project, I investigate the incompatibility of the self with the knowledge of our personal mortality and our ideals of health in contrast to how we live – How we sometimes change our views of reality based on what feels most comfortable, how we create little daily rituals to convince our inner voice that we are living healthily and how we avoid those risks that we have heard so much about.

When we reshape the material world, we are also reshaped.

geological scars in a landscape of memories
petroglyphs recorded in my skin.
the dissolution of our person
while we create imprints in matter,
imprints that also,
slowly dissolve.