Excerpt from an ongoing conversation

When we talk about her practice, Klythm doesn’t separate medium from process. Her work moves fluidly between installations, interactive installations, and oil paintings.

She speaks about the act of sitting down with an idea, not to define it, but to let it live.

“Through the intimacy of sitting down with a creative idea, the idea creates itself through living, through life.”

For her, creation isn’t about imposing meaning. It’s about allowing something to unfold naturally, almost quietly. As she describes it, the work isn’t made by her as much as it is made through her, through observation, memory, and thought.

“The artwork is creating itself through you, through your mind.”

When asked how she would describe her body of work as a whole, she pauses before answering simply.

“All of my work is a self-portrait in a way, fragments of me.”

There’s no urgency in her practice to explain or declare. The work doesn’t seek to instruct or convince. Instead, it exists as an emotional and internal release.

“It’s more of an expression than something to be told to the world.”

Klythm reflects on how this understanding came to her early. As a child, she felt pressure to choose a single path, a single identity, something fixed and definable. Art became the space where that belief dissolved.

“Since childhood, I thought I had to pick one thing and be that one thing.”

Through making, she realized that multiplicity was not only possible, but necessary.

“Through art, I learned that I could be everything I want, all at once.”

The conversation drifts, as her work often does, toward connection, between ideas, experiences, and selves. Nothing is final. Everything is in motion.