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  “Blyertspenna” is the process of building intimacy with my cousin, Kristina, through photography. Kristina is autistic and does not communicate verbally. The starting point of the series is the pencil that she is always holding, an item that has lost its original use and has been recontextualized as a token of comfort. Working with her has highlighted to me how an interaction can be based on the act of looking and on the act of showing as forms of communication.  Practicing sight as a way of communicating, as a different form of language, we connect in an interplay of observing the pencil and each other.