When starting a creative process, I tend to be quite sensitive to emotions that I either find within myself, towards a project or directed at what is currently going on in the world. It is often something that is fragile and transient and that needs to be carefully captured, and not misunderstood, before it goes away. In the process I aim to create a permanent form that constitutes a place about these things about these past feelings and to aesthetically communicate.

For this project I was able to recall a feeling that are the first time I read the novel “Norwegian Wood,” by Haruki Murakami. What touched me when I read the story were subjects of fragility, femininity, mystery and a deep sense of sadness. My first introduction was to work with black and see-through materials to influence these themes but as the progress produced, I was drawn to wool and brother materials.

Photographer: Ronja Úríður Kristleifsdóttir
Hair and make-up: Ísold Hreins
Model: Ísold Steingrímsdóttir