balanced
maker
mentor

Two hands,
one mindset

For twenty-four years I've worked as a MSc (Master of Science) — designing control systems for heavy machinery, running technical departments, leading teams of up to twenty-five. For thirty-five years, since I was ten and found a book on knife-making in the library, I've been a maker.

I grew up with a father who started as a carpenter before becoming an engineer, and a mother who was always weaving. Wood, then leather, then silver and steel, then — recently — clay. The rest I picked up along the way: welding, blacksmithing, CNC work, 3D printing, laser cutting, embedded electronics. I collect skills broadly rather than narrowly.

Now I'm pivoting. I've applied to the folkhögskollärarprogrammet at Linköping University because I want to teach. Not subject-by-subject, but the thing that runs underneath — the creative process, the iteration, the willingness to try something, break it, and try again. The distance between an idea and a finished thing, and how tools and materials can shorten it.

I work from a home setup in Alingsås that's accumulated around me over twenty years. It isn't a grand studio. It's the room you'd design if you had twenty years to design it.