Punk in Gislaved
How punk can you be, living in a small town in Sweden?
How melancholic must you become to survive the teenage years in Gislaved?
How many hours have Patrik spent listening to Joy Division before he understood the power in melancholia?
This is art that creates a longing for something lost, a youth that left, but it also created a never-ending wish for a future youth. A wish to catch that person that used to be me, and take that me in to the future. The art of Patrik is playing with every ones memories.
Do you remember the feeling when the electrical organ
was an object for attack, pointed towards the boring windmills? Do you remember all those school dances
when you where to short?
Do you remember Never Mind the Bollocks loud colors that still sting your eyes?
Do you remember that you still sit in the room of your childhood and wonder: When will it start?

Do you remember the bittersweet art of Patrik?
And we answer: No looking back, we are pushing through.