{image 13}{image 11}{image 17}{image 16}{image 12}{image 18}{image 19}{image 20} Concept book – text and illustrations Is there such a thing as “free will”? That is: can one master one's own destiny? And can a narrative structure house something as complex as a whole worldview? The book Independence day has its' beginning in the meeting between philosophy of politics and book design. The book is, apart from an experiment with narrative structures, an attempt to understand how it feels when one experiences that one's actions are of vital importance, as if the world is dependent on you – to be a compulsive superhero. How does one get there – and how does one find a way out? And wich purpose does it serve to over dramatise one's life? The reader become a magalomaniac, whose actions are a matter of life and death. When I was working with this project, I soon got lost in my own text. It was a story about control that was impossible to control, which despite that became a finished book in the end. In my images, I often work with the offset of perspective that occur in the meeting between the 2- and the 3-dimensional. It questions my characters attachment in thee world, as they float, malplacé in scale, in an undefined space. In my images, the analog and digital techniques exists together, but also as separate units. This makes me raise the question what the unpresice, unfinished and “ugly” image express in a digital age? What signifies a less perfect figure in a photographically perfect surrounding? Buy Independence day Prints are available on demand. The book was released and exhibited at Galleri Toppen in March 2018.