Meet Birte

I believe that being alive means allowing yourself to feel it all – the lowest lows as well as the highest highs, and everything in between.

However, it took me a long time to understand this. I spent a large part of my life existing only from the neck upwards. In my first career as a conference interpreter, my brain was my most important tool. I kept ignoring the whisperings of my intuition, and even its cries, until I felt I was living somebody else’s life.
 
Then I discovered tantra, and everything in my life began to shift. I came home into my body – its wisdom and my intuition are my guiding stars now. I learned how to feel and be with my own emotions, and how to create a safe space for others to feel theirs.

As a consequence, I started moving away from my brain-centered job. After various explorations that now feel like necessary detours,  I found box art.

In this art form, I can express and use most of the things that life so far has taught me. I find it incredibly satisfying and flow state-inducing to fiddle around with lots of different bits and pieces until I've found the perfect combination. How I know? Suddenly, it just feels right. My work is based on my intuition, aided by my sense of proportions and colors.

In a strange way, I feel like I've come full circle - welcoming the stories of other humans and making art based on their keepsakes feels like a deeply meaningful artistic translation process.