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Jögge Sundqvist | Magic Box, 2025

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Jögge Sundqvist | Magic Box, 2025
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Jögge Sundqvist,Umeå, Västerbotten, Sweden
Magic Box, 2025
Birch
4 x 4 x 4 inches | 10.2 x 10.2 x 10.2 cm

A magic box with eight sliding dovetail lids. The patterns are composed by the craftsman and correspond to each other in a theme that deals with the directions of the universe, male, female, and our relationship with the cosmos. It is used as storage for spices.
Or for existential games with dreams about man's future in the world.

Jögge Sundqvist has been active nationally and internationally since 1985 as a craftsman, lecturer, inspirer and author. He works widely with public and private commissions, exhibitions commissions. From utility items to sculpture, he works in green wood with hand tools and produces painted stools, chairs, knives, cabinets, spoons and troughs and sculptures.
In his slöjd, the Swedish word for traditional craft, he explores work processes and relates to a tradition-based know-how and to folk culture where art, quality and working methods are connected.

Jögge Sundqvist has been carving since childhood and is trained in the art of using a knife and ax from his father, the craftsmen Wille Sundqvist. He is educated two years at the Vindeln Folk High School.
Since 1997 operating fulltime under the alter ego s u r o l l e in his workshop and studio in Kasamark, Umeå in the north of Sweden.