✥ Hard bound 300 pages
✥ 150 pages Swedish/English flip split
✥ Comes with cassette tape with music for each chapter.
✥ 140g Offset paper
✥ Written, lived and designed entirely by me
✥ Drawings by me & Taisto
The Nightmares Glade is a multi-faceted art project (Book, Cassette & Film) that’s always been with me as far back as I can remember, since the basis of the entire project is self-experienced. But i began to create something out of it in the beginning of 2022 and is largely about my childhood, perception of reality and creating an end to something that my younger self and I never really got to rest from. A written story based on unreal events from my childhood in relation to a recurring nightmare and night terrors.To each chapter, I’ve made music that carries a sound lanscape and emotions to the story. The first chapter ‘Maran Kommer’ is really just a direct insight into my recurring nightmare and how it felt. An example of what it can look like when too strong feelings of fear, endless hopelessness and imagination mix at a young age. After the first chapter, we then follow a person’s life in an unclear age and future where life has lost its meaning and just revolves around escaping the nightmare that has taken hold in his everyday life. A depiction of what life can be like on the threshold of reality, a threshold that is slowly starting to wither. Throughout the project, there are many references to my background and the relationship with my parents. Much is symbolic and perhaps too personal for outsiders, but I think at the same time many can recognize the feeling of growing up with night terrors. In the same style as childrens books from the 80s/90s, the book comes with a cassette tape containing music associated with each chapter. But The Nightmares Glade is about what happens when the bedtime story is over, when your home becomes dark and you close your eyes.
BOOK
One of the biggest components of The Nightmares Glade is a hardbound book that I have written and designed on 300 pages. The book comes in two languages in the same binding, 150 pages in Swedish/150 in English that meet in the middle from each side. The content is varied with small pieces of text, but mostly pictures and illustrations made by me and my father Taisto.
CASSETTE
For each chapter in the book, I have composed music that is recorded on to cassette tape. The idea is that you should read the book and listen to the tracks along with each chapter as they belong together and carry different parts of the project. The text visualizes the story and the music carries the emotions. All the tracks on the cassette will also be released digitally on most streaming platforms for music March 14, 2024.
FILM
The third component of the project is a 45-minute film where the story gets a visual take together with the music. Recorded quickly over four days in Borlänge, Sweden, Autumn 2023. Filmed, directed and edited by myself with some assistance from my parents Monica and Taisto. In addition to screenings in Malmö and Stockholm, you can watch the entire film for free on my YouTube channel.
