While going through my increasingly receding photo archive, I come across images that I haven’t seen in ages. This one is from my very first solo exhibition in a garage adjacent to the house I was renting while attending art college in Visby on the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea southeast of Stockholm.

I have no recollection of whether I sold anything, but I remember how enjoyable it was to share my creativity and to welcome people who happened to pass by. The house I rented had once been part of Gibsons Bryggeri, a 19th-century brewery near Norderport run by the Gibson family, who still owned the property. I lived in the house for two years.