"As a child I once dreamt that I opened the window and the sky was covered with maps. As if we were inside a terrestrial globe, lit up from the outside. I had this overwhelming sensation of beauty, which has followed me ever since. Maybe that's where my fascination with maps started."

Imaginary Maps are patterns created with inspiration from coastlines, topographic maps and other cartographic elements. The original patterns were printed on wallpaper lengths by Your Wallpaper, and displayed at the exhibition A Sense of Direction at Konsthantverkarna, Stockholm in 2012. 

Prints can be ordered as posters or wallpaper lengths, or customized for a specific room or project. Please contact me at sara@saraengberg.se if you are interested. 

A collection of tins and boxes made for an exhibition at gallery Konsthantverkarna in Stockholm, 2014. 

A collection of neck pieces and brooches for the solo exhibition So Little Time at gallery Two Little Birds in Gothenburg 2013.

So Little Time. Inspired by sequin embroidered voodoo flags and created for the exhibition So Little Time at gallery Two Little Birds in Gothenburg 2013.

Necklaces created for the exhibition A Sense of Direction at Konsthantverkarna, Stockholm in 2012. 

Each piece is unique, and not based on any actual countries or coastlines. They are imaginary islands, hand cut from several layers of colored sheet acrylic collected from all over the world, some of them vintage plexiglass from the 1950's. The ribbons are made from silkscreen printed and painted silk or cotton fabric.

Postcard design for High Desert Test Sites, California, 2014

Learn more on the High Desert Test Sites website. 

Postcards available for purchase in the High Desert Test Sites Store.

Grass letters

Created during a workshop with Ruudt Peters in Ravenstein, the Netherlands (2011)

I would have wanted my Mother to be a Grandmother

Silver jewelry and embroidered apron. Made for the exhibition Bilder av smycken by Makabra Bijouterier at the Zita cinema theatre, Stockholm, 2005. Photo: Jenny Widingsjö

Custom-made silver charm "Iris Bricken"