My work has to do with a visualization of thoughts regarding the gaze and the fundamental preconditions of the image/painting, as well as the relationship between expression and depiction. My painting is characterized by a low-key pictorial language where contrasting notions are juxtaposed and combined. Reality (in the form of an abstract painting and paint as tangible objects) is set in relation to a depiction of reality, a painterly light relationship against an illusion of the light situation in a room. The abstract that opens itself out towards the room and demands active participation of the viewer, encounters a painted depiction of an interior that, with its spatiality offers the viewer direct access to another room. An inner and outer world – something thought and something observed – and in between the two a feedback is brought to bear. Residing in and analyzing this feedback is what interest me the most at this point. Lately my exhibitions have become more installation-like in their structure, where the placement of the works reflects an ambition to have them communicate with each other both across and in relation to the room. And despite the non-narrative expression of each individual painting, a story emerges in the relationship between the works as well as a visualization of the passage of time. Richard Griffith Carlsson, January 2010