She is the Present One
UPDATE/BONUS MATERIAL: Karin Victorin & Tove Kjellmark on Art and Menopause
When doing the interview with Tove for Tarantula Authors Art, I was also invited into her studio.
In this episode of CLIMAXTERIA, a YouTube channel that I started on the art of menopause, Tove and I explore how artistic practice can become a portal through transition. Together, we reflect on the veiled self — she invites me to work with her on a marble figure slowly emerging from stone, symbolizing a body in flux, a self in becoming.
This piece, and this process, speaks directly to menopause — not as an end, but as an unveiling.
A slow sculpting of presence.
A shedding of skins, identities, illusions.
A deep listening to what wants to emerge.
Tove reveals her treasures: bones, found stones, motion data, marble dust. She shares her rhythm: how to be still long enough for the truth to surface. How to shape and be shaped. How transformation isn’t always loud — but deeply alive.
As the sculptor, she trusts me to be part of this process. To witness the moment when the form reveals itself.
This is an invitation to meet menopause as a creative force — a threshold where the hidden becomes visible, and the invisible begins to speak.
Unveil with us.
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Unveiling as Practice - Sculpting Layers of Life by Karin Victorin
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