All images in this book have been taken onboard the M/S Stena Saga travelling back and forth between Norway and Denmark during a period of 72 hours. It is my belief that the idea of travelling without really going anywhere and also being confined within a limited space at the same time is a good metaphor for a photographs nature and also my technique.



I used myself as model and the camera as the tools to explore my selected spaces. In retrospect of moving around in the space with the camera while photographing I have used my collage technique to reassemble the memory of the space. This creates a fragmented and distorted image which suggests a sense of the experience of both the space itself and how it was to be there. By using the individual negatives as building blocks to recreate the space the effect is that no viewpoint or way of viewing the images is the right one and the viewer's eyes have to actively wander around the image to be able to grasp it, and our mind has to sort out what is essential and not, much like when we use our eyes to locate ourself in a three-dimensional space.



As the images are taken onboard the ship they are an immediate and performative response to being in the space, but as they are assembled in retrospect they become as much about the memory of being there as about actually being there, something images inevitably always will be. It is my belief that as one remembers, memories are mere fragments of what was, which we reorganize and categorize to our best ability. When we do this though, they'll never be anything but distorted and subjective fragments of the actual experience put together to make sense.