This week I am going to introduce myself. My name is Emma Dzakula Karlsson and I have been working at Helsinglight for a few weeks. I am originally from Stockholm and moved to Hudiksvall with my family about 5 years ago. I am a nurse with a specialist degree and have worked for more than 10 years in public healthcare. Last year, however, I decided to change direction and after another further education, DK clinic was born.
Despite my more academic education, there lives an aesthetic in me. I have always sung, danced, drawn, written and created. Although I cannot in any way call myself an artist, I enjoy creative processes and I love creating holistic concepts of all kinds. I have a weakness for the dark, magical and theatrical and during my aesthetic heyday King Diamond was my great idol. Although I give myself less room for this today (Mom is extra happy that I no longer have corps paint and leather skirt), the need for creative expression lives on, sometimes more forcefully and physically tangible.
I met Petra Shara Stoor a few years ago after the vocal group Dimmerar`yn posted a request for a new member on social media. With my roots in the rock n roll, this kind of vocal singing was something completely new, but given the shivers - partly of the singing - but maybe most of all of the hole concept, I knew I had landed in my right element. I also got the pleasure of participating in Midvinterglöd twice before the glowing faded. The first year I was completely taken aback by the size of this event. It was a whole new, alternative world that had been built up, that was tailor made for what my mind longed for. I still miss the magic that was created.
Being a part of Helsinglight gives me the satisfaction of being a small part of something very big. A place for alternative expression and free creation. A place for me to enjoy.
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