Jeg ville ikke dra hjem helt ennå [I Didn’t Want To Go Home Just Yet]
[the below video is embedded - please allow a few moments to load.]‘Jeg ville ikke dra hjem helt ennå [I Didn’t Want To Go Home Just Yet]’ explores the prolonging of experience beyond the body’s standard limits. Inspired by my own experiences with the emotional and physical aftermath of nightlife, the piece reflects the desire to delay the ending, despite it being inevitable: we stretch out moments of intimacy and connection, perceptions of belonging, and shared euphoria for as long as possible, trying to avoid thinking about the inevitable collapse that follows.
Initially sculpted as a 3D model and subsequently created as a sculptural wearable form, the piece simulates the sensory disorientation of a hangover or comedown, designed as a parasitic being formed of bone; a rigid, immovable object forcing the wearer to remain in the threshold between the memory of a good night and the return to the ‘real world’. ‘Jeg ville ikke dra hjem helt ennå [I Didn’t Want To Go Home Just Yet]’ positions recovery as both a physical semi-incapacitated state and as an emotional barrier between togetherness and solitude, obscuring vision and preventing close contact, and latching on to the wearer with uncomfortable spikes as a punitive reminder of their misplaced desire to prolong the night. The piece considers nightlife as a contemporary ritual of becoming: a temporary construction of a perceived ‘best self’ formed through sound and shared experience, followed by a dopamine drop and a whiplash back to reality in the days following.
Situated within ‘Samtidsritualisme [Contemporary Ritualism]’, this piece treats the aftermath of celebration as devotional, enthusiastic, yet fragile and vulnerable. It is an attempt to preserve joy, connection, and physical presence before they disappear into obscured memory.