>Someday Soon, But Not Today_2026 Arduino, Code, Modified smart-blind motor, Blind, Poster, LED light strip
115 x 150 x 5 CM
The work includes a photograph I took in Athens, in the Nordic Library where they’d wallpaper pasted a fake window with a view of the
Acropolis that you could look upon from the desk.
+ I Can’t Go On Like This. That’s What You Think!_2026 Arduino, Code, Modified smart-blind motor, Blind, acrylic paint
In both these works a smart-home system is made 'dumb', becoming off-grid, acting as a controller for
moving sculptures, allowing me to show things in multiple, ever-shifting states. This re-configuration of the
smart-blind into a kinetic sculpture allows the viewer to engage with the work differently. Allowing for a perpetual (comical) exploration of poiêsis — a threshold event where something moves from one state to another.
Both blind works have two states, like a coin. They are phisical objects that can be either A or B whilest still being the thing that they are. Put simply they are open or closed, but still always a blind. A coin is heads or tails, but still always a coin. A computer bit is 1 or 0, but still a bit. Even you are your self but also the unconscious being, both parts make up you as a human being, regardless of what your cognitive self thinks.
There’s a contradiction there that shows the complexity of reality. Someone who captured this was the Irish playwright Samuel Beckett, who wrote in his 1952 play Waiting For Godot:
Estragon - “I Can’t Go On Like This.”
Vladimir - “That’s What You Think!”
In Beckett’s play, the two main characters, who might in fact just be two side of the same person, are trapped in limbo, waiting for something, or someone to come along with a new story and conception of reality that can make sense of the strange, unequal, chaotic and disconcerting present they find themselfs in, but hey, at least they have each other – or both parts of themself!
The other blind work includes a photograph I took in Athens, in the Nordic Library where I was part of an exhibition last year. The library is in the centre of the city, just down the hill from the Acropolis. To make the researchers working in the dark library feel a little better about being inside in such a wonderful city, they’d wallpaper pasted a fake window that you could look upon from the desk.
Both works, Someday Soon, But Not Today + I Can’t Go On Like This. That’s What You Think!, are currently on show at Haninge Konsthall as part of Krona Eller Klave?, Stockholm (Sweden) until the 10th May 2026. You can see some more about Krona Eller Klave? if you click on this link.
