Carl, Thomas, Bjorn, Daniel, Lars, William, Pontus, Frederick, Bo, sucrose, food preservative, monofilament line, ring approximately 9’, 2003 and 2006
Swedish wildflowers sculpted from blown sugar re-create mythic memories from childhood:
On midsummer, Swedes celebrate by dancing around the birch and wildflower festooned midsummer pole and by passing along tales. One that I was told by my mother inspired this piece: if a girl tucked wildflowers from a nearby field under her pillow before she went to bed at night, in the morning she would awake to a suitor holding a bouquet of flowers. I created this replica of nine swedish wildflowers out of sugar (one for each man’s name in the title.) Molten sugar has the properties of glass: it can be blown, pulled, and cast. Like myths and memories, this installation will eventually melt away with the passage of time.