Series of prints: 1 print 70 x 100 cm. 12 prints A3 size, framed in pairs 50 x 70 cm.

The starting point of the work Street Haunting is a series of found photographs of a young woman and Virginia Woolf’s essay Street Haunting from 1927. In the essay, Woolf invents stories about the lives of the people she pass while walking across town. When finding the photographs of the young woman I was struck by their filmic quality. I started speculating about what kind of character she would be if she was part of a movie or a novel. Eventually, I contacted five psychics and asked them the following questions:

- What are the woman’s best qualities?
- Worst faults?
- Deepest secret?
- What does she want?
- What is getting in her way?
- Does she ever wish that she were someone else?
- How was her way through the city that day?
- What book did she carry in her bag?
- Who gave her the heart shaped necklace?
- Will we ever meet?
- Do you have any advice for my project?

In the work the five readings are presented along with my altered versions of the photographs.

Street Haunting, Lunds Konsthall, 2010 (Photo: Lunds Konsthall / Terje Östling)