Borealis Atelier
The Curiously Questioning Writer,
Homemaker, Artist & Online Sex Worker:
Linnéa Johansson
I, Linnaea, welcome you to my personal website, the gallery of my life. This is where it has led me, what I've grown to be. Free. You see, I am where I want to be.
This website is the crossroads between tradition and modernity, practicality and inspiring fantasy. Where recipes of homemade pies find their place - among contemplating articles which may challenge what we all think we thought. There need not be the one or the other.
In this place you'll find all that I create and all that I am. Here you'll find my thoughts in written word as you browse through the pages of my blog. You´ll glimpse my past and present through the galleries of photography, or maybe you'd rather indulge in the fictional short stories and painted art? If you would like to support me and my work, please consider subscribing to my OnlyFans or tipping me over at Chaturbate. My art may also be available for purchase. If you're interested in buying, send me an email via the mail form. However it may sound, this site isn't mainly created for and about me, but for the world. I only strive to earn a living changing it for the better.
About me
I call myself Borealis. I grew up in the northern forests of Sweden, among pinetrees, snow and blooming meadows, until one day I moved south, far away to the salty cliffs of Gothenburg to get myself a degree in Law. Back then I called myself Lea; Short for Linnéa.
After some time, having quit my Law studies, and feeling burdoned by the limits of society, I began to feel like part of me was withering away. However I was not yet ready to identify myself with the flower so resembling my given name and state. In some forums I instead called myself Sleeping Beauty. The princess analogy resembled my curse: the curse of unknowingly being polyamorous, needing outside connections, having desires far too traditional and yet far too modern all at the same time. This was because I slept my days away, unwillingly. It was not until years later I discovered the cure - the countercurse of unlimited expression which would nurture my whole being and with it, make possible a transition from sleeping to blossoming.
Since then I've been on a journey, searching far and wide for the treasures of life. I've never been much of an enthusiast in art, never specialized in any medium or dug around deep in information about the tools of the trade. And yet... yet I've always been an artist. Percieved so from the outside as well as creating my identity around it, though I've never cared much for great names or famous venues, I've been building something. I am building, growing something. I may not always be painting. I may not often hold a camera in my hands. My workshop spreads wider than any walls can contain - through text and art and music - into the more ambigious 'life itself'.
For some time I contemplated: What may a flower need? Tradition and adventure, I answered myself. I craved nurturing relationships in various forms - from fleeting encounters to stable connections in a garden safe to take root in. Socially, I would need stability to grow yet freedom to thrive. And so I began searching for a garden, as space of my own, vast enough to explore endlessly. Now, I think I've found it.
Alongside this search, my days were filled with studies. A long time had passed since I quit law, yet wanting to educate myself, enlighten myself, I dwelled deeper and deeper into philosophy and culture and social issues. In that lay my interests, not in the wheel of money called modern society. Now, with one degree in Cultural Sciences and another in the History of Science and Ideas I am ready to explore the world around me, be inspired by my surroundings and encounters - and ultimately tend to the garden of my life: my relationships, my creations, my thoughts and expressions.
I may not immerse myself tradition and technique, but nontheless I create. I am creating my life, and so, my life is art: I am my own artwork, and here I present myself and my process to the world, with hopes to inspire the those following me to, likewise, leading their life on their own terms.
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