The subjects in the paintings often depict the environment people in the periphery lives in, the ones that refused to conform to the centralizing urban norm of society. I want to show that there is beauty in the smallest of things occurring in our lives. Life in the periphery lets one have other values than the myth of eternal growth and pose an alternative to the thought of urban life as the only right way. This painting has allegorical undertones at the same time as it shows an ordinary scene occurring in the home. When I was a child, the opening to the attic was an exciting occurrence with endless opportunities, much like Christian ascension.”