I, Tor Gustad Molt, am 45 years old at the time of writing. I graduated in Fine Arts at Falmouth College of Arts in England in 2005 and stylistically I have always been an "outsider artist".

The series I'm currently working on now is an ongoing introspective project that first started to grow in 2003 after reading The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart. The book introduces several interesting psychological and philosophical questions, among them the division of self into different factions with their own dreams or fears.

With this backdrop I`ve made several works where a person's inner self is described as a society, in a fantastical city called Ohm. The whole city and world around (and alternative worlds within) symbolize a person, a self, an individual. The project can be described with Wagner's term Gesamtkunstwerk. He used the expression about his ideal of an opera performance where words, images, music and philosophy were joined into one whole.

The inhabitants are divided into different factions that represent various emotional divisions. Instead of feet they have coloured pencils speak for themselves in separate speech bubbles, and show the truth . The citizens have many occupations and tasks - among them, they document their lives through a graphic novel. It becomes a kind of history book for the city, where what is recorded gives advantages/disadvantages for various elements in the city in the future.

In some drawings in my new series we see this novel in production. Through different alternative worlds linked to different filters (training camp, audio world, Circus Tornardo, the city's documentation i.e. graphic novel and calendar world) the inhabitants of the city can gain access to a position of power, and with the opportunity to force through.

Decisions, access to all association magic can offer from visual rhymes to living rebuses. In these other dimensions you can get to from the city, there are also other citizens who have their workplace (and each world has different visual expressions). The finished product (graphic novel or comic, we'll see) it will look completely different, as there will only be routes and coherent story. This series show snapshots and work in progress and is closer to a “behind the scenes” or even “deleted scenes” production.

The background for these works (which have been given the subtitle "The search for gut feeling") is a recognition that I have had poor contact with my own intuition all my life. Trough self-fulfilling prophecies, my self-confidence got weakened and depression made me angry and sad. Because of this I always chased external stimuli, like the rush of falling in love, roleplaying, boardgames, drinking and anything that could veil my insecurity. As an adult, I found tools and ways to deal with this uncertainty - but as a child, I think this is the reason why I took to drawing as a form of expression: to visualize or evoke for myself what I was feeling at any given time.

With each picture completed I understand more about this world, its characters and institutions. It is obviously a journey into myself where I also try to make some relevant points about life or the world, while I try to compare the relationship between individuals vs society. It gets mirrored infinitely as I am a part of a society (IRL), while my feelings are made into specific characters with individual internal lives.

This text is possibly incomplete as a full account of the images, with such symbol-heavy material. But I have a lot more to say too. These things may come as new chapters, as this series has included everything from pop cultural references and "eastereggs", to metaphors and wondering about internal processes or philosophical issues.