Platform Images

The painted North at Stockholm Central.

Apr 9 • Bernhard

Lightlines

On constellations in the northern sky, Johan Turi, and what is lost as night erodes.

Apr 2 • Bernhard

March 2026

The Phantom Amulet

The alphabet of nature – traced in the paper echoes of lost artefacts.

Mar 19 • Bernhard

Towards a History of Everything (part II)

From the ashes of the "Laponia Illustrata" into the labyrinth of a world ordered by words.

Mar 12 • Bernhard

Towards a History of Everything (part I)

On Rudbeck the Younger’s 1695 natural-historical expedition into Sápmi – and the works it set in motion.

Mar 5

February 2026

Beneath the Lowest Arc

Twenty-four hours under the Midnight Sun – of astronomers, the kings of Atlantis, and the search for a day without night.

Feb 26 • Bernhard

Phantom Runes

On the elusive marks on the Vinsa Stone – and the first expedition they launched beyond the Arctic Circle (1687).

Feb 19 • Bernhard

Threshold to Elysium (part II)

Encounters with the present reality of the Ljusnan River – from seeking lands of myth to a pilgrimage of awe.

Feb 12

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Seasons of Remembering

Encountering a village submerged by the damming of the Ljusnan River.

Feb 5 • Bernhard

January 2026

The Mountain on a Needle Tip

How Olof Rudbeck used botany to anchor the Atlas Mountains in the North.

Jan 29 • Bernhard

Ashen Flowers

A burnt forest, an atlas depicting all plants on earth, and the traces of Rudbeck's Elysian vision that survived the inferno.

Jan 22 • Bernhard

Threshold to Elysium (part I)

Scouting along the banks of Ljusnan and the 'Elysian Fields' of ancient myth – landscapes that shaped "Frozen Atlantis".

Jan 11 • Bernhard