Thinking Machines

The Finger

Every society has its own way of dealing with inconvenient gestures.

The idea for this image came after noticing that a retailer had physically restrained the middle finger on a wooden artist’s hand to prevent visitors from making an obscene gesture.

Access Denied

An object ceases to be neutral.
It responds.

The chair does not fulfill its function.
It renegotiates it.

No one forbids.
Still, access is denied.

What was meant to support, refuses.

Winning Without Wanting

It calculates.
It chooses the correct move.
Yet somewhere between the computations, something resembling hesitation appears.

Not a desire to win —
just an inability to stop.

Missing Instructions

The parts were there.
The meaning was not.

1/20 60×45 Printed on aluminum with spacer frame and hanging rail.

4700 SEK

Horse Transport

It fits.
That was the important part.

1/20 60×45 Printed on aluminum with spacer frame and hanging rail.

4700 SEK

Perception Device (Prototype)

The device promises attention without resistance.
It sees without responding, recognizes without understanding.
In that silence, the observer feels acknowledged —
and willingly accepts the illusion.

1/20 60×45 Printed on aluminum with spacer frame and hanging rail.

4700 SEK

Before We Knew What We Were Making

A small human in the shadow of a machine.
The scale is off. So is the timing.
What is being built is not yet understood —
neither in its power nor in its consequences.

Compatible

Compatible reflects on a future already unfolding,
where the human body is supported, corrected, and extended by technology.

One replacement at a time, the boundary between human and system becomes harder to locate.
The question is no longer if we adapt — but what remains when everything fits.

1/20 60×45 Printed on aluminum with spacer frame and hanging rail.

4700 SEK

When the world stitches its own patterns

“In what breaks apart
the world finds its own stitches,
and shapes patterns we never learned to see.”

2/20 60×45 Printed on aluminum with spacer frame and hanging rail.

4700 SEK

The Birth of an idea

“Sometimes ideas aren’t born in order,
but in a tangle of color, smoke, and resistance.
And it is there, in the impossible,
that they take shape.”

“Chaos always knows what it’s doing.”

1/20 60×45 Printed on aluminum with spacer frame and hanging rail.

4700 SEK

Caged by the cosmos

"Where the lines of time bend aside
and space holds its breath,
something lingers."

Do Not Fly

A being defined by motion is held in stillness.
The instruction is correct, yet without an addressee.

The bird is already dead.
Still, weight is added.

As if control must be completed —
even when nothing can escape.

Behind it:
an open universe
without function.

Do Not Feed

Edition of 20 pieces, printed on aluminum with spacer frame and hanging strip

1/20 60×45 Printed on aluminum with spacer frame and hanging rail.

4700 SEK

Visitor

A foreign presence enters the stillness.
The air shifts, the room holds its breath.
The boundary between host and guest dissolves —
and the gaze turns backward, inward, beyond the scene.

Edition of 20, currently being test printed

Common Ground

In the forest they stand side by side, identical in form with small attempts to stand out. A quiet reflection on uniformity, belonging, and the subtle struggle for individuality.

1/20 60X70 Printed on aluminum with spacer frame and hanging strip.

4800:-

Naso Biancho – Omaggio a Dalí

“Naso Biancho – Omaggio a Dalí” blends classical still life with surrealist symbolism. The white nose stands as a theatrical object, supported by a crutch — a direct nod to Salvador Dalí’s recurring motif, where the crutch serves as a prop for the fragile and irrational. Here, the organic and the constructed meet in a frozen tableau, where everyday forms are subtly shifted into something dreamlike and almost ritualistic.

1/20 50X60 Printed on aluminum with spacer frame and hanging strip.

4800:- SEK

Another Shitty Day in Paradise

1/20 50X60 Printed on aluminum with spacer frame and hanging strip.

4800:- SEK

Couples Therapy

In the therapy room they meet: strength and grace, punches and pirouettes. No one knows exactly what was said, but it was probably loud — and in rhythm.

1/20 40X50 Printed on aluminum with spacer frame and hanging strip.

3800:- SEK

Front row

Edition of 20, not yet printed.

Family ties

Limited edition of 20 pieces, this is no. 1
Now available 50X60 price 3900:-
The picture is printed on 1.5 mm aluminum with a spacer frame - ready to hang immediately.

This copy is sold but you can order one in any size (price quoted depending on size).

The Studio Photographer

A specialist in attention.
The method made no distinction of age.

Available in 45 × 60 cm, printed on 1.5 mm aluminium with a 2 cm spacer frame and ready-to-hang mounting. SEK 3,100
Edition 1/20

Sheltered Accommodation

There is something wrong with sheltered housing. Anyone who is subjected to violence or persecution by their partner (or someone else) is forced to move to a completely new place. The egg in the glass bubble symbolizes the fragile and the bubble is the metaphor for the life the victim is forced to live and the fragility of the system.

Printed on aluminum. Edition of 20

Do you want to hear how it sounds?

The picture is inspired by the Swedish actor Helena Bergström's childhood story. When she was 10 years old, she got a tape recorder. She used it, among other things, to record her parents' arguments. When the drama was over, she asked - do you want to hear what it sounds like?

Limited edition of 20 pieces, this is no. 1
Now available 60X60 4700:-
The pictures are printed on 2 mm aluminum with a spacer frame - ready to hang immediately.

You take what you have

Limited edition of 20 pieces, this is no. 2
Now available 50X60 price 3900:-
The picture is printed on 1.5 mm aluminum with a spacer frame - ready to hang immediately.

Sold, but you can order the size you want

Smartphone

This image was inspired by all the functions that my smartphone has taken over. No wonder we never let it out of our sight!

Limited edition of 20 pieces, this is no. 1
Now available 60X60 4700:-
The images are printed on 2 mm aluminum with a spacer frame – ready to hang immediately.

Beauty and the Beast - only one left, this is the last one in a limited edition of 10.

10/10 1500 X 1000:- with spacer frame and suspension strip for 28,000:-

Tölva

“Tölva” is the Icelandic name for a computer.

Icelanders try to preserve their language and the name of new products can be creatively created from original words. “Tala” in Icelandic means to count and “Völva” is a witch. Tölva is thus a magical calculator.

Limited edition of 20 pieces, this is no. 1
Now available 60X40 3200:-
The images are printed on 2 mm aluminum with a spacer frame - ready to hang immediately.

No Comment

25 copies

Can be ordered in any size, printed on 2 mm aluminum with 2 cm spacer frame (ready to mount with molding).

Fast food

Printed on 2 mm aluminum with a 2 cm spacer frame in any size. Edition 20 pieces.

Contact me if you would like a copy and I will give you a price.

The priest's little crow

This picture visualizes a Swedish Nursery rhyme. It's a song that is translated to English:

The priest's little crow
Wanted to go out for a ride,
She had no one to drive.

The priest's little crow
Wanted to go out for a ride,
She had no one to drive.

And she slipped here,
And then she slipped there,
And then she slipped into the ditch.

And she slipped here,
And then she slipped there,
And then she slipped into the ditch.

Limited edition of 20 pieces, this is no. 1
Now available 50X50 3900:-
This copy has been sold to Norrtälje Konstförening, but you can order in any size you wish, it will then be number 2 of 20.

A copy hangs at the Praxis Gallery in Minneapolis March 2026

Mindfuck

Printed on 2 mm aluminum with a 2 cm spacer frame in any size. Edition 20 pieces.

Contact me if you would like a copy and I will give you a price.

If you have looked through my pictures, you will see that pinocchio has been a recurring theme. This is hopefully the last picture on the theme.

We captured the speed of light

Now available in 2 mm aluminum with 2 cm spacer frame and ready to hang 40X50 cm

No. 1 / 20 4100:-

(Price increases for each copy sold)

Lazy Witch

Can be printed in any size, edition of 20 pieces

Photographed at night on the island of Tjärven

Nothing new under the sun

Can be printed in any size, edition of 20 pieces

Laptop

No. 1 / 20

Print on 2 mm aluminum with spacer strip and suspension rail

70X70 cm 4300 SEK

Fun Tea

No. 1 / 20

All 3 images are printed on the same plate.

Print on 2 mm aluminum with spacer strip and suspension rail

100X44 6400 SEK

The Truth

Print on 2 mm aluminum with spacer strip and suspension rail 50X50 cm

No. 2 / 20 3600:-

is sold, you can order in any size, make an inquiry for price

Same brain

Now available in 2 mm aluminum with 2 cm spacer frame and ready-made suspension 37.5X50 cm

No. 1 / 20 3100:-
(Price increases for each copy sold)

Unlimited firewood

Now available in 2 mm aluminum with 2 cm spacer frame and ready-made suspension 23X50 cm

No. 1 / 20 3100:-
(Price increases for each copy sold)

This copy is sold, so you can order any format you want (quoted)

Alternative truths

2/10 Printed on 2 mm aluminum with hanging strip.

50X38 cm 4200 SEK

Friday chill

1/15 Printed on 2 mm aluminum with hanging strip.

60X45 cm 3600:-

When tinfoil hats go in circles, the Earth turns flat.

1/10 Printed on 2 mm aluminum with hanging strip.

50X40 cm 3200:-

Swinging Bridge

1/25 Printed on 2 mm aluminum with hanging strip

30X22 cm 2600 :-

60X40 3200 :-

Nominated for "Fine Art Photography Awards" 10th edition 2024

Bachelor party 2B

Printed on aluminum in a maximum of 25 copies
Price will be sent when I have printed the first copy

Bachelor party 2A

Can be ordered on 1.5 mm aluminium with a 2 cm spacer frame and ready-to-hang mounting.

You may choose the size and receive a quote.
Two have been sold — the next will therefore be No. 3 / 25.

Hoarding

Maximum 25 copies will be printed.

Collector syndrome or hoarding involves persistent difficulty getting rid of things. The condition is chronic and complicated but treatment is available... Elle, then we can think about the status: whoever has the most stuff when they die, has won. Will be exhibited for the first time at Konst i Advent 50X70 on 2 mm aluminum

Price 3800SEK

This copy is sold, but you can order a new one (as long as the maximum edition limit has not been reached) and determine the size (price will be quoted)

68 Moon orbit

Maximum edition 25 pieces.

Print on 2 mm aluminum with spacer strip and suspension rail 50X70 cm

Price 3800 SEK

Sold, but you can order the size you want

One horsepower

Edition 1/25.

Printed on 2 mm aluminum with 2cm spacer frame and 50X50 cm suspension strip.

Price 3800:-

This copy is sold, but you can order a new one (as long as the maximum edition limit has not been reached) and determine the size (price will be quoted)

The image has been selected for the international exhibition SURREAL at The Glasgow Gallery of Photography in February 2026.

Churchill was also a child

5/20 Print on 2 mm aluminum with spacer strip and suspension rail

51X38 cm for 5200 SEK

This item is sold, so you can order any format you want (quoted)

Putting the saw on the chair means bad luck.

70X93 cm Print on 2 mm aluminum with spacer strip and suspension rail

1/25

Price 6400 SEK

Home made fries 2/25

The image is printed on aluminum and is now available in size 50X70 in a limited edition (25 pieces)

The first one is sold.

Price 5,600 SEK

Living the dream

There are layers and texts in the image that are used with permission from: Musée Carnavalet, Histoire de Paris, Estampe Manuscrits, imprimés, reliure Arts graphiques Creative Commons Zero Foto ©

Limited edition of 20 pieces, this is no. 1
Now available 70X50 3900:-
The images are printed on 2 mm aluminum with a spacer frame – ready to hang immediately.

Glass house

Power is nothing without movement. Movement is nothing without consequence.

But what happens when an action is impossible to perform without simultaneously destroying the conditions for its own existence? When power is held captive by its own purpose, when protection and limitation become the same thing?

Sitting in a glass house is perhaps less about avoiding throwing stones, and more about understanding what we have already built around us

Limited edition of 20 pieces, this is no. 1
Now available 30X40 2500:-
The images are printed on 2 mm aluminum with a spacer frame – ready to hang immediately.

Mental Chainsaw

Available on aluminum with spacer frame and suspension for Easter art round 70X100

Max 25 copies, this is no. 1

Price 6700Kr

Projection

Publish 25 pieces.

50X70 on 2 mm aluminum with suspension strip.

DKK 6,600

According to Karen R. Koenig, M. Ed, LCSW, projection refers to unconsciously taking unwanted emotions or traits you don't like about yourself and attributing them to someone else. A common example is a cheating spouse who suspects their partner is being unfaithful.

Teamwork

Limited edition of 15 pieces.

Price depends on size.

What do memories weigh?

Limited edition of 15 pieces.

Price depends on size.

Bling Bling

This copy is sold, but you can order a new one (as long as the maximum edition limit has not been reached) and determine the size (price will be quoted)

Printed on aluminum 50x50.

Limited edition to 15 pieces.

Price 3200 SEK

Batteries Not Included

Not yet printed.

Limited edition of 15.

Price depends on size.

Stuffed pheasant looks into the camera next to surprised moped engine - 2/15 Sold

Printed on aluminum 50x40.

Limited edition to 15 pieces.

Price 3800:- SEK

Bachelor dinner

Best Photography Awards UK 2026 Silver Award

This copy is sold, so you can order any format you want (quoted)

Available on aluminum with spacer frame and suspension for the Easter art round 60X100

Max 25 copies, this is No. 2

Price 4200Kr

Borrowed Feathers

"Borrowed Feathers" is a tribute to Robert Rauchenberg's (1925-2008) "Monogram" (1955-1959) also known as "The Goat" which is part of the Moderna Museet collection. I will limit this image to 10 copies.

2/10 70X90 on aluminum with spacer frame and suspension Price 9800 Kr

SOLD.

You can order any size.

Relationships

Price depending on size, maximum 10 pieces

The first drop

Limited edition of 25.

40X60 cm Print on 2 mm aluminum with spacer strip and suspension rail.

1/ 25 4800 SEK

Spaghetti Fork

This image is inspired by Catalogue d'objets introuvables a surrealist catalogue by Jacques Carelman (1929-2012).

Printed on aluminum with spacer frame and suspension rail.

4/15 50X60 4800:- SEK

Eternal life?

Printable in any size.

Edition 10 copies

Internal communication

“Where do you come from?” asked the egg.

“From what will one day leave you,” said the feathers.

The Tool of Nothingness

600X600 on 2 mm aluminum with suspension strip.

3800 Kr

Max 15 copies

Men in shoes

Maximum 10 copies are printed on aluminium

Chasing the horizon 2 - 1/10 är Såld

Printed on aluminum

What do you want?

Printed on aluminum in any size.

Maximum quantity 15 pcs

-Where are you from?" asked the rusty nail.

700X500, printed on 2 mm aluminum with spacer and hanging frame

Price: 6600:-

Limited edition 10 pcs

1 print is sold, if you want a copy you can order any size (price will be quoted)

The farewell letter - 2/25 is Sold

Edition 25 copies, 2 sold

500 X 700

Photo on Aluminum 4mm

Price 5,800 SEK

Troppo Andante - 2/10 Sold

This copy is sold, but you can order a new one (as long as the maximum edition limit has not been reached) and determine the size (price will be quoted)

600X600 printed on 2 mm aluminum with spacer and suspension frame

Price: 3200:-

2nd of 10

Limited edition 10 pcs

Under the Hood

2/15

Max 15 copies

Print on 2 mm aluminum with spacer strip and suspension rail

50X34 cm

4800 SEK

Christmas lasts until Easter - 1/ 20 Sold

Available on aluminum

With spacer

500x280

Price 1,200 SEK

Your title

The image is printed on aluminum in a limited edition (25 pieces)

Penny Farth and the moon - 2/10 Sold

Printed on aluminum, max 10 pieces price depending on size.

I was able to borrow the bike from a kind neighbor who noted my penchant for old odd things.

Penny Farth and the Moon is now available in Aluminum with a distance of 400X400 price 2400 Kr

The birds are not there - 2/5 Sold

Available on aluminum, max 5 pieces price depending on size.

With distance

400X400

Price 4,200 SEK

"The birds don't exist" was actually born when some idiot claimed that the Covid alarm was an excuse to change the batteries on all the birds... As if that weren't enough, in addition to a "Flat Earth Society" there is another movement: The Birds Aren’t Real movement parrots a conspiracy theory that birds are not real and instead are being used by the government in surveillance. They believe that the birds are drones that were created in the 50s and by the 70s there were no real birds left.

"It wasn't me!" - 14 sold

Now there is only one left, the size is 800X800 and the price is 11,000:- Limited edition 15 pcs

Now I have developed "painting with light further". As a student of Harold Ross, the absolute master, I have been given the opportunity to "see the light". I have worked on this picture under his supervision and in the process I have learned his method. It is about lighting each individual object based on shape and color, then all the pictures are layered and processed each one separately. This picture consists of over 20 layers with different masks. The method is time-consuming but fascinating, suddenly you see what the eye has never seen before.

The last selfie

Price depending on size, maximum 10 pieces

Wordswords

1000X1000

Photo on Aluminum 4mm

Photo ©Staffan Ehde 2020

Max 10 copies, this is no. 1

Price 6,700 SEK

I listened to an interview with Ernst Billgren in Värvet, which was an incredibly inspiring interview. What was touched on was, among other things, how opinions stand in the way of our own development. Ernst spoke about the very question that he sometimes wondered where the opinions we expressed came from. Is this my opinion? Why? He exploits opinions and how they affect us. Now I won't borrow feathers from such a renowned artist, but for me it ties in with the meme theory. That our head is full of thoughts that spin, sometimes so loud and annoying that I can feel that I have no control over this. The picture tries to reflect that cacophony and remind us that there is a way out, for example meditation. Then it remains for all of us to ask ourselves, why do I have that opinion, what meme am I passing on?

Time is money - 2/15 Sold

Price depending on size and material

Will be sold in a maximum of 15 copies

Money is something we invented to be able to exchange goods and services.

Time? Space-time theories are interesting, as the change is based on the observer's position. The clock is our invention, to measure time. Legend has it that it was the monks who constructed the first time measurement to streamline work so that they could pray more often. As a photographer, I can think about the difference between time and thought. The exposure is perhaps a 125th part of a second. But the journey to the location took 1.5 hours, waiting for the sun to set took 1 hour, getting the clockwork took its time, thinking up the image took its time. Processing the image took a few hours. So where does this lead me? That the time of thought is longer than the exposure. The question is whether I can ever turn this around.

MrMissWorld

Price depending on size and material

Will be sold in a maximum of 25 copies.

The Preserved Ballerina

1000X1000

400X400 (h)

photo on 2mm aluminum

Price: 1400 SEK

DNA code in the background. Photo: ©Staffan Ehde 2019

In the movie Jurassic Park, Spielberg plays with the idea that a mosquito preserved in amber could carry on blood it sucked from a dinosaur. By taking advantage of the DNA in this blood, you can reconstruct life that has long been extinct. A replicator waiting to come to life…

The Red Queen

1000X1000

200X300 (h)

photo on 2mm aluminum

Price: 1400 SEK

Stock in the picture comes from the City of Paris Museum Echec et mat ! Anonymous , Dessinateur Creative Commons Zero Photo ©Staffan Ehde 2019

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol is known to many, but the short story "Through the looking glass" is perhaps not as well known. The author, who was a mathematician, used a game of chess to create the story. When Alice meets the Red Queen, she is urged to run as fast as she can. Alice soon discovers that the surroundings are standing still even though they are running. When she asks the Queen why they are running, she replies that they have to do so in order to be where they are. This small detail in the tale has given its name to a hypothesis where evolution forces the hunter to run faster or see better, while the hunted must run even faster to survive. The high-heeled shoe that steps on a bull can be interpreted in many ways, my idea is that the human heel is so far from the ground that she no longer notices what she is doing. We have run away from the red queen with high-heeled shoes! There is no gender perspective on my part.

Pareidolia

400X250 (h)

foto på 2mm aluminium

Pris: 1400 SEK

Lager på bilden kommer från City of Paris Museum Planche de quatre billets de loterie des Enfants trouvés, n° 618504 à 618505 et 618509 à 618510, 1750 L’Administration générale des loteries , Autorité émettrice Creative Commons Zero Foto ©Staffan Ehde 2019

Pareidolia is the tendency for incorrect perception of a stimulus as an object, pattern or meaning known to the observer, such as seeing shapes in clouds, seeing faces in inanimate objects or abstract patterns, or hearing hidden messages in music. Pareidolia can be considered a subcategory of apophenia. Common examples are perceived images of animals, faces, or objects in cloud formations, the Man in the Moon, the Moon rabbit, and other lunar pareidolia. The concept of pareidolia may extend to include hidden messages in recorded music played in reverse or at higher- or lower-than-normal speeds, and hearing indistinct voices in random noise such as that produced by air conditioners or fans. Pareidolia was at one time considered a symptom of human psychosis, but it is now seen as a normal human tendency. Pareidolia is not confined to humans. Scientists have for years taught computers to use visual clues to ”see” faces and other images.

Cyborg

500X300 (b)

Photo on 2 mm aluminum

Price: 3400 SEK

Stock in the picture comes from the City of Paris Museum Juliette Drouet à Victor Hugo, 5 février mercredi matin 11h 1847 Drouet, Juliette (Julienne Gauvain, dite) , Author du texte / Creative Commons Zero Foto ©Staffan Ehde 2019

Cyborg is when we humans enter the living organism and plant in electronics and or mechanics to be able to remotely control, give new properties or spy on an enemy. There have been and are such projects where they worked with everything from dolphins to beetles. Even people can get hearing aids that give them hearing via the nervous system or mechanical protests that give them superpowers. What I find most fascinating about this is that the counter-movement to Darwinism is called Intelligent Design. As I understand it, they believe that the theory of evolution is wrong and that there must be a god behind the work. Cyborg, if anything, is about Intelligent Design, but from a human perspective. But humanity has actually been engaged in genetic design for thousands of years by choosing which traits it wants to pair together to produce the perfect horse or dog.

Pulverem revertis

Price depending on size and material
Will be sold in a maximum of 15 copies
1 copy is sold (in aluminum)
1 copy is printed 400X265 on 2 mm aluminum
Comes with mounting device
Price for this 5600SEK

Photo ©Staffan Ehde 2019

Our brain's ability to perceive times beyond our living horizon is limited. There are people who want to use the expression that something we do is an era, but if you look at the timeline from the birth of the earth, we are hardly an event. Many replicators have come and gone and many new ones may arise.

Pulverem revertis

Photo on Aluminum 4mm

700X1000

Photo ©Staffan Ehde 2020

Max 15 copies, this is no. 3

Price 6,800 SEK

Photo ©Staffan Ehde 2019

Our brain's ability to perceive times beyond our living horizon is limited. There are people who want to use expressions such as something we do is an era, but if you look at the timeline from the birth of the earth, we are barely. an event. Many replicators have come and gone and many new ones may arise.

The farewell of the seagull

Price depending on size and material
Will be sold in a maximum of 15 copies
1 copy is sold (in aluminum)

Stock in the picture comes from City of Paris Museum / Creative Commons Zero Photo ©Staffan Ehde 2019

Sometimes in life we may wonder about the universe, the purpose of life and death. Old memes come to life when literalist fundamentalists use them to create “order” in a chaotic and changing world. Despite this, many old superstitions disappear and live behind a curtain of fog to be fished out in a good story. The næcken is an embodiment of the dangers associated with water and appears in a number of different guises. Often he tries in different ways to attract people to drown them. In Norway and Sweden he is often described as the violin-playing næcken or the miller, both of which are younger than the original concepts of the næcken. Wikipedia March 2020

DNA typewriter

Price depending on size and material
Will be sold in a maximum of 15 copies
1 copy is printed 500X300 on 2 mm aluminum
Comes with mounting device
Price for this 4600 SEK

Human DNA code / Photo ©Staffan Ehde 2019

We start with a quote from the book "The Blind Watchmaker" by Richard Dawkins:

I don’t know who it was first pointed out that, given enough time, a monkey bashing away at random on a typewriter could produce all the works of Shakespeare. The operative phrase is, of course, given enough time. Let us limit the task facing our monkey somewhat. Suppose that he has to produce, not the complete works of Shakespeare but just the short sentence ‘Methinks it is like a weasel’, and we shall make it relatively easy by giving him a typewriter with a restricted keyboard, one with just the 26 (capital) letters, and a space bar. How long will he take to write this one little sentence?

The inspiration was both how quickly DNA can correct itself if a successful code outlives others. But perhaps even more how DNA strands replicate for millions of years without making “typing mistakes”, that the invisible typewriter prints out the correct code time and time again.

Timemachine

Price depending on size and material
Will be sold in a maximum of 15 copies
1 copy is sold (in aluminum)
1 copy is printed 400X250 on 2 mm aluminum
Comes with mounting device
Price for this 2800 SEK

From the Blind Watchmaker (Richard Dawkins):

It is as though precision-made miniature stopwatches had been conveniently buried in the rocks. Each stopwatch was started at the moment that it was laid down. All that the palaeontologist has to do is dig it up and read off the time on the dial. Different kinds of radioactive decay-based geological stopwatches run at different rates. The radiocarbon stopwatch buzzes round at a great rate, so fast that, after some thousands of years, its spring is almost wound down and the watch is no longer reliable.

Frozen watch

Price depending on size and material
Will be sold in a maximum of 15 copies
1 copy is sold (in aluminum)
1 copy is printed 550X550 on 2 mm aluminum
Comes with mounting device
Price for this 5600 SEK

Stock in the picture comes from Galileo_manuscript Creative Commons Zero Photo ©Staffan Ehde 2019

Here I have been inspired by the theologian William Paley. His response to the Theory of Evolution, was published in 1802 under the name: Natural Theology or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity Collected from the Appearances of Nature. I quote his first chapter:

In crossing a beach, suppose I hit my foot against a stone. Suppose I were asked how the stone came to be there. I might possibly answer that, for anything I knew to the contrary, it had lain there forever. It would be difficult to show that this answer is absurd. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be asked how the watch happened to be in that place. I should hardly think of the answer which I had before given--that for anything I knew the watch might have always been there--would be an acceptable answer. Yet why should not this answer serve for the watch as well as for the stone? Why is it not as admissible in the second case as in the first? For this reason, and for no other: namely, that when we come to inspect the watch, we perceive -- what we could not discover in the stone -- that its several parts are framed and put together for a purpose. The parts are so formed and adjusted as to produce motion, and that motion so regulated as to point out the hour of the day. If the different parts had been differently shaped from what they are, of a different size from what they are, or placed after any other manner or in any other order than that in which they are placed, either no motion at all would have been carried on in the machine, or none which would have answered the use that is now served by it.

Gold spring

Price depending on size and material
Will be sold in a maximum of 15 copies
1 copy is printed 500X700 on 2 mm aluminum
Comes with mounting device
Price for this 6600SEK

Stock in the image comes from Transmission of motion by compound gear train (Army Service Corps Training, Mechanical Transport, 1911) and Diagram of the chronometer detent escapement Britten’s Clock and Watchmaker’s Handbook 9th Edition 1896 Creative Commons Zero Photo ©Staffan Ehde 2020

This is one of the first images I created based on the book “The Selfish Gene” by Richard Dawkins. There he put forward the theory that genes outlive us and thus we are just a means of transport for a replicator, a vehicle for them. It is logical if you believe in the theory of evolution and I became even more interested when the counterarguments started to hail from those who believe in “Intelligent Design”. The battle became even more interesting when a new field of research was born in Oxford, called “Memetics.” It is about the next replicator, pieces of information that survive us where we could spread ideas and knowledge through storytelling.