This essay is a description of my artistic work process. The essay gives examples of how the work occurs in the boundary between places such as the studio and the wood workshop. In the essay you can follow four different passages that are followed by strophes that have arisen during the work. With the help of Hannah Arendt's 'The human condition: vita activa', I describe the conditions and prerequisites of creation in my work. Through the artists Daniel Buren, Constantin Brâncuși, Gordon Matta-Clark, I discuss how the separation and transformation of materials creates form with a loss. The essay describes a working process that consists of finding form for the absent in the present.