The essence of both light art and painted art is to offer the audience an opportunity to experience thoughts, emotions and sensations through the artworks they are contemplating.
Since I finished my education, I have been working as an artist for 21 years, 14 of them as a light artist. The combination artist – light designer makes me perceptive to the relationship between space and light. Setting up lights and stage lighting is a task that involves many different factors and requires an expert eye, in this case that of an artist.

It is particularly interesting to take the history, the function and the usages of a place into consideration when setting up lighting. The harder the challenge proves to be, the more exciting the task becomes.
You must have a keen but sensitive approach, always bear the audience and the everyday users of the place in mind when lighting a public space, without letting this affect the quality of the work. It is important to know the unwritten rules for a good light setup, but also to have to the courage to break the rules and think outside the box.
My artistic work is done both in my studio where I paint and draw, and out in the public domain where I display a lot of my light artworks. This means that my diverse types of artworks and skills encounter their audience in very different ways. I have set up lighting for a variety of places and events, from theatre performances, exhibitions and sculptures to buildings, stores and public spaces. (See Art exhibitions & Light installations)
I prepare all my work in my studio, and my time there is as essential to the quality of my light setups as to my paintings. The light installation work is just another form of painting – I use light to paint.
Light art is not only about light, but also concerns darkness. An issue that I am very concerned with is the light pollution visibly dominant in most of our towns and cities.
For more pictures, see also Lectures and tutorial work.

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Blommandeljus (Light in blossom)- temporary light artwork in Stadsparken, a park in central Lund, lasting from February through March 2011. A painting made with the brushstrokes of artificial light, a continuation of the work Ljusmålningar (Light Paintings), part of the exhibition Konstgjort ljus (Artificial Light) in 2002 at Gallery Rostrum.

Takt och Ton (“Beat and Key”,) visual artwork in Kapellparken (Kapell Park) and “The Red Carpet”, light artwork at the landing steps of the entrance stairs of Kulturskolan (Youth's art and music school) in Karlskrona. Work made in collaboration with Jan-Anders Hansson.
Se also the movie “Beat and Key”

Photo: Jan-Anders Hansson and Åsa Wirling

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Mimers Brunn (“Mimer's Well”): Odin, chief god in the Norse mythology, pawns one of his eyes to Mimer the giant to acquire his wisdom. The eye is hurled down into the depths of Mimer's Well at the foot of Yggdrasil – the world tree. Odin is left one-eyed but still has access to information on everything going on in the world through his messenger ravens Huginn and Muninn. From the dark waters of Malmö canal, a variety of eyes, filmed in our times, gaze up at us. We all have to give something for knowledge.

Photo: Åsa Maria Bengtsson

Se also Mimer's Well as a movie (15mb)

Artificiell Solnedgång (“Artificial Sunset”), light installation for the “Mamma Knota” project, Örebro 2003