Elin Woksepp Åleheim: In silence sealed

There is a wordlessness that I need to see and it is through painting that I can. I sense it in the light, in turning points and in the spaces of man and how it encompasses everything - and I try to see. I'm not the painter at the easel, I'm everything. I am as much the people and objects physically and mentally as the light, moods, color rhythms and the viewer. To paint is to make oneself available and put oneself in a state where one can move freely between all these levels.​

In Silence Sealed

If the wordlessness is over us and envelops everything, then the silence is close. If the wordlessness is too great to see or capture from a perspective, then the silence is personal, close to the skin and can not be kept out of the body. Silence, not primarily something physical that lacks sound, but perhaps rather something mental, can be the lack of words in front of oneself or between people. With painting, I have been able to move in the silence and search in the closed, in vulnerability and man's relationship to himself and others.