.T PDF Boulevard of Broken Dreams - mixed media, 2005 Painting equipment; brushes, paint, canvas, books, etc. Dimensions: 5 x 2 m. Installation view: Årsutställningen, Konsthögskolan i Malmö, Malmö (S)
	A Boulevard of Broken Dreams - mixed media, 2005 For the annual exhibition in my final year at the art academy, during my last days in school, I decided to get rid of all the unused art material I had stored in my studio. When I first began to study art, at two different preparation schools, I bought a lot of paint, brushes, and canvases, in the belief that this was the media I had to choose to become an artist. Despite this I couldn’t convince myself to become a painter, and maybe this inability was what made me overcompensate in the material way. Finally, I found a way to use the material in an art piece, but maybe not in the way I had in mind at the time that I bought it. *** Exhibited at: Årsutställningen, Konsthögskolan i Malmö, Malmö (S) 2005
	A BBD-Grant, 2006-07 Scolarship of 1000 sek (110 €). As a continuation of the project Boulevard of Broken Dreams I founded the BBD-grant - a scholarship for up and coming painters at Malmö Art Academy. The BBD-grant is provided by the interest earned from the sale of painting materials in the installation Boulevard of Broken Dreams. Boulevard of Broken Dreams took place during the Year Exhibition at the Malmö Art Academy 2005. Both the sale of materials and the resulting endowed income for the BBD-grant provide two different platforms for a discussion about the concept of art – one casually on the street, the other formally in a merit-based grant. Each year a student from the Malmö Art Academy, devoted to painting, is selected by the faculty to receive the BBD-grant. By supporting painting as an artistic expression the grant re-actualizes my sold materials original purpose. In 2007 the BBD-grant was handed out for the second time. This year Ella Tillema received 1000 sek "for her fresh and powerful paintings, and her way to make her experiences from various creative fields interact." In 2006 the faculty chose Fredrik Norén to receive the BBD grant stating “in the spirit of the founder, he spins and reuses the material as well as the ideas of painting”.