Kristina Hård

"When you die you end up in the place you were thinking of at the time of your death. So you should always have a good story in your head." That is how Kristina Hård thought of death when she was a little girl, and the thought has stayed with her as have the stories and the need to create with pictures and words. Kristina gathers inspiration from her travels. With her husband and sons she has visited many unique places: she has searched for pirate beaches around Boston, walked through hundreds of labyrinths around the world, and hunted for the exoskeletons of cicadas in forty degree heat. She has also visited places that are now uninhabitable by humans, poisonous places exploited for quick gains. All this served as inspiration for her book Alba.