“Protect me from what I want”
Protect me from what I want
Is a portrait of Jens Andreas Clausen, a jeweller, knife-maker, and thinker whose creative life unfolds in quiet resistance and slow returns. Captured within his packed studio and home in Norway, the images document more than tools or objects. They map a personal terrain of doubt, time, and interrupted desires.
Drawing from an extended conversation, the series reflects on what it means to make, to stop, and to want. Jens speaks of creativity as an urge, sometimes delayed, sometimes dormant and of workspaces as places where meaning accumulates even in absence.
Through layered surfaces, unfinished projects, and objects suspended in dust, the series becomes a story about solitude, memory, and the struggle to live a creative life on one’s own terms. It is a portrait not of production, but of the thresholds before it, of being “protected from what we want.”